Tuesday, 5 June 2007

Vista and Dev-Cpp


For unexplicable reasons, Dev-Cpp does not compile correctly under Windows Vista.

It seems that Microsoft's OS messes up with environment paths, or something.

After a morning of swears and curses, I found a post on SourceForge's forum, featuring a workaround.

All you have to do is:
  1. go in "tools > compiler options", move on "directories" tab and add "C:\Dev-Cpp\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2"
  2. go in "programs" ad put "C:\Dev-Cpp\bin\" before any executable name
Naturally, put no quotation marks and eventually replace C:\Dev-Cpp\ with your Dev-Cpp installation folder.

This seems to work. Upsetting anyway.
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48 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:50 pm CEST

    thanks a ton man I really needed that fix

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  2. Anonymous5:34 pm CEST

    I also needed to click on the "C includes" tab and add:
    C:\Dev-Cpp\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\include

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  3. Anonymous1:15 am CEST

    I followed all the instructions that were displayed on this page step by step, and It the still didnt it allow me to compile in Dev-Cpp....what versions Of
    Dev-C ++ can WINDOWS VISTA SUPPORT???

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  4. Unknown3:36 pm CEST

    I use the version 5 last beta... what kind of error does it return to you?

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  5. Viktor10:05 am CEST

    This worked perfect for me, thanks alot! I was almost about to reinstall xp just because of this. Strange thing is Visual Studio 2008 has the same issues for me, but I couldnt find a fix for it.

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  6. Anonymous7:13 pm CEST

    Thankyou SO MUCH for this, I was going insane...

    Kept getting "Source file not Compiled" whenever I pressed 'compile&run'.

    This has it fixed :D

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  7. Anonymous2:07 am CEST

    Thank you, worked perfectly.

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  8. Anonymous4:02 am CEST

    I have followed the instructions to fix Dev C++ 5 for Vista, but it is still not working. If you have more suggestions, please e-mail me at scanny8537@gmail.com

    Thanks.

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  9. Anonymous6:06 am CEST

    Thanks a lot !!!! Why do these guys screw up every thing which works fine with windows xp ?

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  10. Anonymous9:51 am CET

    hey, thanks a lot,
    finally I could compile my programs.

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  11. Anonymous10:18 pm CET

    works good, thanks man.

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  12. Anonymous2:02 am CET

    MARCO IS GOD.

    THANKS FOR THIS FIX

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  13. MyTechTroubles10:03 am CET

    Wonderful...Thank you very much

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  14. Anonymous2:29 am CET

    Thank you so much!! You helped me a lot fixing Dev-C++ to work for Vista! :)

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  15. Michael Melice4:49 am CET

    SWEETNESS YOUR LIKE JESUS...

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  16. stormbeta8:17 pm CET

    Still getting nothing. It looks like it's trying to load the compiler executables from my project folder instead of the Dev-Cpp folder, like it's ignoring my directory settings altogether.

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  17. Anonymous10:39 am CET

    i have tried all your instructions,but i m getting trouble with stdio.h

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  18. Anonymous11:30 am CEST

    thanks, saved me some cursing

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  20. Ice Princess7:55 am CEST

    Hey thax, but, i didnt understand the second step, what do u mean go toprograms? where??

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  21. Ice Princess7:58 am CEST

    i ment go in progrms.

    go in "programs" ad put "C:\Dev-Cpp\bin\" before any executable name
    -where?

    Naturally, put no quotation marks and eventually replace C:\Dev-Cpp\ with your Dev-Cpp installation folder. ???

    PLLLZ help! :-(

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  22. Unknown9:16 am CEST

    I assume you followed all steps before the "programs" thing.

    in this moment, you are supposed to have the "compiling options" window in front of you. In the upper side of this window there should* be four "tab button":

    - compiler
    - code generation/optimizations
    - folders
    - programs <-----

    click on "programs" and follow the remaining steps. let me know :)

    * I'm sorry if there's some naming mistake, but I have an italian localization of DEV-CPP.

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  23. Ice Princess11:08 am CEST

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  24. Ice Princess11:14 am CEST

    thank u so much! its now working!! i wished i knew what it ment that thing ive done. but still, it works! :-)

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  25. Anonymous4:25 pm CEST

    THANK YOU!!!
    I've been strugling with that thing for days.
    God bless you!!!

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  26. Vikram Gupta7:23 pm CEST

    Sry if its already answered, but I got the same problem and what I did was:
    1. Click tools->compiler options
    2. uncheck the box that says "Add the following commands when calling compiler."

    It worked for me.....just give it a try if u have the same prob.

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  27. Anonymous2:49 am CEST

    THANKYOU!

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  28. Jessica @ Jessiker Bakes3:41 am CEST

    LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!
    I was trying to fix this for hours since last night. Thanks!!!

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  29. Anonymous8:02 pm CET

    Thanks

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  30. Laurent3:38 pm CET

    Thanks, helped me out. I really hope that the developers will take care of this issue.

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  31. Anonymous11:44 am CEST

    Hi Guys,

    Please Help me, I am really frustrated... I am having the same problem.

    I followed the steps, given above,

    1. Open up BloodShed and a simple program.
    2. Click on Tools -> compiler options-> directories
    Under directories, there are still 4 tabs (Binaries, libraries, C Includes, C++ Includes)

    Question: should I add "C:\Dev-Cpp\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2"
    on all 4 tabs?

    3. Then when i go in programs there is no option there where I can
    - ad put "C:\Dev-Cpp\bin\" before any executable name

    I have in there gcc, g++ etc.

    Please help me..I really appreciate it,

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  32. Anonymous12:21 pm CEST

    Hi guys,

    I finally figured it out what i am doing wrong, my dev-cpp is perfectly working now! thank you very much!

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  33. freestyle mathmatics5:22 pm CEST

    Thank you so much. I spent a day and a half figuring out the problem is Windows Vista and not Dev-C++.

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  34. timoshenko5:26 pm CEST

    Great
    Thanks a lot, I had already wasted infinite time and was about to shift to visual studio. The fix was a lifesaver

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  35. Anonymous7:29 am CEST

    The step says:

    "Naturally, put no quotation marks and eventually replace C:\Dev-Cpp\ with your Dev-Cpp installation folder."
    What does it mean????????

    Please reply me soon at dishant_ag810@yahoo.com

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  36. TiagoT3:20 pm CEST

    Im from Portugal. ThkYou.

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  37. Anonymous7:13 pm CET

    Dude, you rock! Thx from Poland :)

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  38. SHEETAL2:25 pm CET

    THANKS A LOT , A STEP BY STEP GUIDE ,& VISTA PROBLEM SOLVER ,HELPED IN INSTALLING IT PROPERLY

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  39. SHEETAL2:25 pm CET

    THANKS A LOT , A STEP BY STEP GUIDE ,& VISTA PROBLEM SOLVER ,HELPED IN INSTALLING IT PROPERLY

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  40. Anonymous12:26 pm CET

    thnkz a lot man ! It worked Just Fine

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  41. omegle11:21 pm CET

    Thanks so much for this! This is exactly what I was looking for

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  42. Anonymous1:11 pm CET

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  45. Anonymous4:27 am CET

    Thankyou very much, I'm moving programs from my XP and was frustrated with this issue. Kudos for you ^ ^

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  46. klima servisi7:23 pm CET

    Thankyou SO MUCH for this, I was going insane...

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  47. kombi servisi9:49 am CEST

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  48. electrolux10:12 pm CET


    Anonymous said...
    thanks a ton man I really needed that fix

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