About setting up visual studio code for c

[tired magnet]

Hi everyone
I am a beginner having doubt in the set-up
Downloaded visual studio code, Mingw(from source code, minimalist gnu for window download), code runner
Added the bin folder of Mingw to user environment path.
Able to see gcc version in the terminal.
When trying to execute simple c script(hello world) facing issue in getting the output
[Running] cd "c:\User\sriha\Documents\c_code" && gcc third.c -o third && "c:\User\sriha\Documents\c_code"third
Error message: c:/mingw/bin ../lib/gcc/mingw32/6.3.0/ ../../../libmingw32.a(main.o):(.text.startup+0xa0) : undefined reference to WinNain@16' collect2.exe: error: I'd returned 1 exit status

[meager shale]

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[zinc rover]

Could you post your hello world code? Make sure you saved your file before running

[tired magnet]

main(){
printf("hello world");
}

Yes I have saved the file

It is in c_code directory

[lucid lichen]

Please screenshot your entire VSC window

Also you're using some ancient GCC version (6.3, while the latest is 14)

[tired magnet]

Yes my gcc version is 6.30 I tried upgrading it
C:\MinGW\libexec\mingw-get\guimain.exe
When the GUI is open, tap Installation -> Update Catalogue. This will update the package list.

After that, tap Installation -> Mark All Upgrades. This will select all of the packages which can be upgraded.

Finally, tap Installation -> Apply Changes(this option is disabled) to apply the upgrades but not able to upgrade it

It says everything has been updated but the changes are not reflected in the terminal the gcc version are still 6.3.

[lucid lichen]

There's no single "the" MinGW

There are better or worse versions of it

https://stackoverflow.com/q/30069830/2752075

Here's a better one, for example

[lucid lichen]

And no, you didn't save the file

[tired magnet]

I have saved the file and using gcc version 14.1.0

Thank you it somewhat working

But I have 2 doubts here
Can you clarify me

Sometime I am getting the above error

[meager shale]

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[zinc rover]

Undefined reference to WinMain usually happens when you’re on windows and you don’t have the main function declared

I see a lot of beginners who don’t know to save the file and that’s why they end up getting it

[tired magnet]

Thanks for the clarification

And why it is insisting to add stdio.h and int main instead of normal main()

[zinc rover]

1. stdio.h is the header file that declares that the printf function
2. The main function returns an int, so you need to specify that

[tired magnet]

Thanks 🙂

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