I have installed MinGW64 on Windows 10(under C:\mingw, not C:\Program Files). After adding the directory of the \bin to System Path, I thought I would be able to go to terminal and run g++; however, I get g++ not recognized. I tried in terminal, Powershell, and Git bash(why so many terminals??) and same result for all of them. I am new to Windows so may be missing something very simple here.
My Path is Path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\PowerShell\6\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\;C:\wingw-w64\i686-8.1.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0\wingw32\bin;C:\Users\Darin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Darin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\bin; PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
The goal is to get g++ working both in and out of Virtual Studio Code. I used this website as my guide. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw
When I tried under VS Code, I noticed that it is using Powershell, not the Git bash that I thought it would use, and it fails for the same reason on g++ of course. Below is c_cpp_properties.json if that helps.
{
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Win32",
"includePath": [
"${workspaceFolder}/**"
],
"defines": [
"_DEBUG",
"UNICODE"
],
"windowsSdkVersion": "10.0.17763.0",
"compilerPath": "C:/mingw-w64/i686-8.1.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32/bin/g++.exe",
"cStandard": "c11",
"cppStandard": "c++17",
"intelliSenseMode": "gcc-x64",
"browse": {
"path": [
"${workspaceFolder}"
],
"limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true,
"databaseFilename": ""
}
}
],
"version": 4
}
Any assistance is greatly appreciated!