Nothing is displaying lmao

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@simple panther

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[agile helm]

Try running it from a standalone terminal

[forest token]

You compiled after you wrote the code right?

[oak sluice]

Just to double check - is this the right main.cpp in this directory? Perhaps you made an empty main.cpp that doesn't print anything here.

[agile helm]

Obligatory: Just use Visual Studio

[silver maple]

and also , everytime you make any change in your file , you have to recompile it and run the new application

maybe you built the .exe initially , wrote some code but didnt recompile it and you are trying to run the old exe

[sudden shadow]

Please run gcm g++ and echo $env:PATH and show the outputs

[simple panther]

okk

[sudden shadow]

Most likely you need to edit the PATH and move the compiler installation directory to the very beginning

[simple panther]

yeah

[agile helm]

why would this make a difference? it seems that it compiles, just issues with it running

[simple panther]

wait.. when i did ts with the standalone terminal

i got

🌹

[simple panther]

hm..

ok lemme try that ig

[silver maple]

show what you typed in the terminal behind this error screen

[simple panther]

ok

i typed g++ main.cpp -o fkt.exe

fkt.exe

dats all

[silver maple]

oh ok

[sudden shadow]

Those cryptic errors are usually caused by having >1 copy of the standard library in path, and the app loading the wrong one by default (wrong = not the one that comes with the compiler)

[agile helm]

ah

not an issue with Visual Studio

[sudden shadow]

Ok, so you need to move C:\MinGW\bin to be first in PATH. After you do that, restart VSC, run echo $env:PATH, and confirm that it's indeed first

[simple panther]

ok

[agile helm]

@sudden shadow when are you gonna write an installer or universal script that one shots this set up for us?

[simple panther]

dayum

still not working..

lemme just reinstall ts

gn

[sudden shadow]

You don't need to reinstall anything. Show the output from echo $env:PATH

[sudden shadow]

I think this is bad for learning, I want them to know what they're doing

[agile helm]

I don't think it's particularly useful for beginners, tbh

Unless you're trying to gatekeep (then based)

[sudden shadow]

The explanation why PATH needs to be in this order isn't very useful, but knowing how to manipulate it is. Or at least I think so

[agile helm]

Useful, but i think it's outside of the scope for trying to learn the language basics

I think a lot of what you have to do to set up MinGW on Windows is useful knowledge, just not what you want beginners to be focusing on trying to learn C++

[sudden shadow]

I could be wrong, but I assume that if someone is unable to follow those relatively simple instructions, and you give them an easier IDE to install, they'll get stuck on something else down the line anyway

Perhaps this does count as gatekeeping? 😛

[ocean jewel]

guys you could have told him to run

cat main.cpp

in the terminal to check if it matches the GUI text editor window, smh