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MinGW gcc -c no such file or directory

I'm trying to compile a C programing in windows using MINGW

below is the command I'm using

c:\MinGW\bin\gcc –c ddefit95.c ddeq.c w95dde.c matrix.c qp.c spline.c gcv.c rangen.c stochmin.c map.c cr.c

and the files listed are in the current directory.

However my output is "no such file or directory"

I then tried

c:\MinGW\bin\gcc –c ddefit95.c

and

c:\MinGW\bin\gcc –c DDEFIT95.c

but got the same output. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Steve

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I thought I should also add that gcc.exe is located in C:\MinGW\bin\gcc

thanks

Steve

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Hi phoffric thank you for your comment, I was able to compile a "hello world" program using the following steps

c:\MinGW\bin\gcc -c hello.cpp

c:\MinGw\bin\gcc -o hello.exe hello.o

which gives me a working hello.exe program

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Hi DaveBaldwin I tried c:\MinGW\bin\gcc hello.o which gives a.exe as a working "hello world" program

when I tried that with my original problem I got

C:\ddefit>c:\MinGW\bin\gcc ddefit95.c ddeq.c w95dde.c matrix.c qp.c spline.c gcv
.c rangen.c stochmin.c map.c cr.c

results in the following:

ddefit95.c: In function 'G':
ddefit95.c:433:3: warning: passing argument 1 of 'Jacobian' from incompatible po
inter type [enabled by default]
ddefit95.c:133:6: note: expected 'int (*)(struct matrix, struct matrix, struct
matrix, struct matrix, struct matrix, void *, int, double)' but argument is
of type 'void (*)(struct matrix, struct matrix, struct matrix, struct matrix
, struct matrix, void *, int, double)'
ddefit95.c: In function 'getno':
ddefit95.c:661:20: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpo
inter-to-int-cast]
C:\Users\JIMSHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccQl6gPm.o:w95dde.c:(.text+0x8a6): undefine
d reference to `CreatePen@12'

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Hi jkr thank you I corrected the path variable, and used gcc in stead of c:\MinGw\bin\gcc but I still got the same error.

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Thank you phoffric,

The error was saying that the missing file was "gcc -c " but no specific file was listed. I can't reproduce the error now. All I've done is change the path variable as was mentioned above.

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Thank you David phoffric and everyone for your responses. does this mean the problem is not with MinGW? The code is maintained on a website and I do know it works though.

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I should correct myself,

to set the path I used

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\MinGW\bin

Yeah it is weird that there is no makefile. I was under the impression though that make files weren't something used in windows?

Well it seems we're onto a different problem now though, MinGW is trying to compile just failing so I'll post the points and probably open up a new question once I figure out what to ask.

Thank you everyone for your responses.

Best,

Steve

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sarabande

actually any ide uses some kind of makefiles even if they were called differently or were based on xml. the main reason is simple: for any non-trivial project the number of files and options to handle are far too much as that you could pass them via commandline. moreover, by using a makefile or projectfile, you can do an incremental build, what means that you were building only those files that have changed or were dependent on changed files but not the whole project any time.

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