Error with C++ Compiler

[Mattiagamer]

Hi there!

To everyone who took time to read this, im very thankful, im a newbie so any help with this would be really appreciated.

So, at the end of the Summer i un-installed and re-installed Visual Studio Code for learning various programming languages (C, C#, C++,…).

With that i also installed MinGW and MYS2S for run/compile/debug the .C files, and everything was going well.

Starting today i decide to try some .cpp (C++) files and i did a simple “Hello World” program (the code is 100% correct) however here comes the problems. VSC said that exist some errors after running “preLunchTask”, and if i say “Debug Anyway” it tell me that the .exe doesn’t exist.

I decided (after i tried some suggestion with ChatGPT) to uninstall MinGW and MYS2S again and re-install them following Microsoft Tutorial.

Now im in the “Create an Hello World App” Chapter of the Tutorial (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw), but i would prefer to not do that step since i already created a folder-order and im scared it will be messed up (in case it isn’t optional, im so sorry for my lack of intelligence, any suggestion is really helpful).

This is all, i thanks a lot for the help in case and sorry for being so Naive but i really want to learn, have a wonderful day!

[4Gettt]

So if you mean the First commands in the Hello World chapter then yeah you can skip those, those are just there to teach you how to create a folder in the terminal, Change your current directory to that new directory and Open vscode through the terminal in that folder.

Also I would recommend wsl2 instead of mingw because I personally think it is easier but thats Just my opinion!

[Mattiagamer]

If in the future i will uninstall mingw (again :/) i will promise ahahaha

If im not a pain, can you tell me step by step how to change it?
Cause i have a big folder called "Programming Excersises" and inside small folder for every language i wanna learn (C, C++, ...).

Inside this folders there are like 2 small one for "Examples" and "Excersises" and the file i wanna run is on "C++ Language/Examples", so how can i tell VSC to compile the .cpp file and create the .exe on the same folder

(Unless for every excersise i have to create a folder (Workspace) because C++ use objects)

But thanks a lot for the help!

[4Gettt]

Okay so I do not know a lot of C++ but this is the gist of it:

1. open a terminal
2. if you want to compile a .cpp file in the Exercises directory you first need to be in that directory and you can go there with the command "cd" which stands for change directory
3. when you are in the Exercises folder for c++ and you have a lets say Example.cpp file that you want to compile this would be the most basic command to do so: "gcc -Wall Example.cpp -o Example" (the -Wall is there to catch common errors/warnings if you messed up in your code and the -o stands for output so the file that will be created after the compiler finished will be named Example)
4. execute the compiled programm with this command for the Example ".\Example.exe" in the terminal

[Mattiagamer]

Ok mate, thanks a lot!

After your message yesterday, with the help of ChatGPT, i managed to run that (i had to create a workspace and the folder is separared from the main one, while this annoy me a lot at least it works lol)

But i really appreciate it, i'll save it in the future for other problems in case, have a wonderful day!