On 14 August 2016 at 06:58, Matthew Brush <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-08-13 01:27 PM, bill punch wrote: >> >> You probably know that you can now run a bash command line from Windows >> 10, and even more interestingly you can download all the ubuntu tools >> (14.04) such as g++. >> >> You can also run these commands from a regular windows cmd.exe if you do >> the following: >> >> bash -c "g++ --version" for example, gives the version number. >> >> However, if I do the same as a build option (say, the compile option) I >> get "Process failed(The system cannot find the file specified)". Even if >> I use the absolute path, the Compiler line says
Is it bash it can't find or is it g++ ? The message in () may be the system message for the code returned from bash. Try running a bash builtin instead of g++ or try the full path to g++. I don't know which startup files bash on windows reads, but is your path defined in the right one? >> >> C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe -c "g++ --version" (in directory: >> C:\Users\bill) >> >> with the same error message. PATH does have bash in it, it all works >> fine in cmd, just not here as an option. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> For those that want to ask why the question, I'm trying to help students >> in a large C++ class. Some use windows. >> > > What version of Geany? > > You might try single or no quotes instead of double quotes around the bash > -c argument. > > Cheers, > Matthew Brush > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
