Although an old question, none of the answers here helped me. The only route I found to get to my destination is by typing in the following line in my command prompt:

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

After that, simply type in gcc -v.

Hope this helps anyone with the problem I had!

Hey,,, It will work for you I believe

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1. First: open the link: https://www.msys2.org/
2. Go to the installation and download the installer .. install the exe file.
3. search mingw in windows search(windows start)
4. there is an app named--> MSYS2 MinGW {64/32}-bit
5. run it as administrator
6. Found command shell ---> type: pacman -Syu
7. Will ask you for some installation click on Y
8. Then again go to the same app MSYS2 MinGW {64/32}-bit and run as admin
9. and write--> pacman -Ss gcc (in shell that opend after click)
10. after clicking there will be bunch of things and now you have to care about your windows arch.. if it is 64 bit then write---> pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc (and if its 32 you will find something like that where 64 will replaced by 32 in bunch of commands that are showing in your shell)
11. after executing this command gcc will be installed in your system to check write: gcc --version || g++ --version
12. After that to install the debugger write pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb
13. to check write: gdb --version

**Every thing got installed in your system now find the mingW file or mysys2 file on C drive(whereever you r mingW file got saved) go the the minGW 64 || 32 accroding to your operating system there is a bin folder click on that and copy the path inside the bin folder and save it in environment variables path **

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Enjoy vs code

Hi Arnab Roy_786,

You need to make sure either:

**a.**Use the full path to the gcc program when executing it, c:\path\to\gcc.exe

b.      Add the path to the program to the PATH environment variable:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519

Steps are slightly different for windows 7 but that should help.

Good luck!

You need to install GCC (or whichever C/C++ compiler you want to use) and put the directory containing it in your system PATH (usually this is done for you by the installer program / package manager).

Unlike Visual Studio, VS Code does not come with a compiler.

• Right-click "My Computer"/"This PC" from Windows explorer and pick properties. Alternatively Windows key + X and click "System". An "About" window appears.
• Scroll down to "Advanced system settings" and click on it.
• Click on the "Environment Variables" button.
• Select "Path" in the window that appears and click the edit button.
• Click on "Edit text" (not on "Edit"!).
• Before modifying anything, I strongly recommend to copy the text there and save it in a text file for backup, so that you can restore the PATH in case of mistakes.
• Write a semicolon ; at the end of the text there unless already present. Then after the semicolon add the full path to your Mingw installation's bin folder. For example ;c:\mingw_w64\bin.
• Important: if you installed Mingw under for example C:\program files\mingw_w64, then the path must be ;C:\Program Files\mingw-w64\bin; without any surrounding " ... ". If using the "Edit" command available in this window, then the " ... " will get added and this may break the gcc path from working. (It just happened to me and that's the reason why I decided to write this Q&A.)
• Click OK for each open window.
• Reboot Windows.

Now you should be able to type gcc from the command line or use it from your programming IDE.

Assuming you are using windows; Most probably there's no compiler installed on your machine. If you want to use VSCode for C programming, you should install a C compliler and add it to path variable in windows.

But my suggestion is use a different IDE, like Visual Studio Commuity or DevC++.

If you want to use VSCode, you should download and install MinGW, Cygwin or any other compiler.

If you are using Mac, Try installing XCode and use VSCode or CodeBlocks.

I suspect something in your PATH. Is it a py file? What system are you running?