the picture explain it all.
Vasthor 0 Junior Poster in Training
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Jump to Post@AD: That's a screen shot of msys, the MinGW replacement from cmd.exe (command prompt). It is a unix-like bash shell for Windows, like cygwin. That's the standard way to run MinGW/GCC in command-line (unless you want to suffer and use the command prompt).
@Vastor: The problem I see on the …
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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
Are you trying to run MinGW under a linux emulator? You probably don't have permissions to run MinGW from within c:/users/mat folder. Move MinGW to C:/MinGW then make sure to grant access to everyone then try again.
mike_2000_17 2,669 21st Century Viking Team Colleague Featured Poster
@AD: That's a screen shot of msys, the MinGW replacement from cmd.exe (command prompt). It is a unix-like bash shell for Windows, like cygwin. That's the standard way to run MinGW/GCC in command-line (unless you want to suffer and use the command prompt).
@Vastor: The problem I see on the screenshot is that you are using a DOS-style address of the folder, but msys (or cygwin) uses Unix style. In other words, you entered cd C:\Users\mat, but, in Unix style, it should be cd /c/Users/mat. That's all. It might be good to for you to know a few basic Unix shell commands.
There shouldn't be an access rights problem here, since you are the user "mat", and if there is, it will display a message saying that. It is usually preferable to avoid user directories in Windows, they are a mess of access restrictions and convoluted symbolic links.
Vasthor commented: thank you very much. +2
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