I found the "mingw installation manager" binary package online, installed it on my system, then proceeded to download and install all the packages under the mingw repositories 'basic setup'. The compiler that Codeblocks expects is actually "mingw" which is apparently a port of the free GCC compiler from these other platforms. I also checked to ensure I was downloading the latest version, re-ran the installation as admin, but there was still no trace of the compiler anywhere to be found.Īfter doing some investigating online, I learned that the GNU compiler is actually not a Windows compiler at all but was mainly developed for Unix based systems first. Our teacher said that this compiler should be included in the Codeblocks installation, but it looks to me as though didn't install it whatsoever. When doing a custom Windows Explorer search for the compiler executable on my entire hard drive, it could not find any trace of the file located on my computer either. To my surprise, Codeblocks could not automatically find the compiler on my system after following the default installation (full features). I installed Codeblocks a little while ago and I'm trying to get my source code running on my home computer now. He also stated multiple times that for our curriculum, we would require this compiler specifically instead of something like MSVC, since it better follows traditional C++ standards and allows teachers and students to build any source code on multiple machines.
The teacher told us that we can simply download CodeBlocks or XCode for Win/macOS and use the GNU/GCC compiler without any problems. I am in an introductory C++ class and we have been using the school computers with all the environments already pre-configured for us. I apologize for the long post in advanced- I'm just trying to describe what I've already tried as best as possible in order to better troubleshoot the issue.
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