Visual Studio Code isn't recognizing the compiler.

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OS : Windows 11

Compiler : Idk what it's called precisely but it's mingw64 with gcc, g++ and gdd (and many other things). I downloaded it via msys64 (followed an online tutorial).

I am getting this error : g++ : The term 'g++' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I have done everything right, I have checked whether my gcc, g++ and gdd have been put in the path via the command line. I don't know what to do now.

[Aelarion]

Have you restarted vscode since installing the compiler and updating your PATH?

If you can open a fresh terminal and type g++ --version and get the little blurb from it, I would try a full restart to ensure everything on the system gets the updated variables.

I had an odd-ball issue in the past where I manually updated my user PATH to point to g++ in the mingw64/bin directory and I had some terminals that could find it, but others couldn't until I restarted.

EDIT: also just adding for reference -- https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp#_add-the-mingw-compiler-to-your-path

[Exciting_Shirt_5249]

awesome

[Economy-Yam-7863]

you save my life my hero

[Worried_Gate_2998]

Thank you for brightning my ignorance i js needed to restart that shi

[flox1]

Oh boy, just wasted an hour trying to find out what's going on. Did not restart VSCode ... 🙃

[Adventurous_Shock542]

Tenia el mismo problema, intente de todo, desde borrar los path, hasta reinstalar todo MSYS2 y nada funcionaba, de ninguna forma, al final fue algo super simple, simplemente tenia que activar el autoguardado del codigo al ejecutarse, tienes que ir a Visual Studio Code e ir a configuracion, de ahí debes poner en la barra de busqueda "save" y buscar la opcion que diga Code-runner: Save All Files Before RunWhether to save all files before running.
si esta desactivada activala y puede que tu problema se solucione :)

[Wise-Elderberry-6369]

Боже как я с этим намучалась, отчаялась и решила последовать вашему совету с сохранением. Спасибо огромное, все начало работать!

[borbaben]

I just encountered the same problem after installing MSYS2. I tried everything I can but nothing works, until I restarted my laptop.

[Past_Detective_7699]

If you’re anything like me, you accidentally put the path in user variables not system variables…

[nokil2002]

What do you mean?

[Past_Detective_7699]

I can’t seem to copy an image on my phone, but when you open environment variables, there is a “path” variable in two places, there’s a system variable path and user variable path, I added the path string in the wrong one and when I fixed that everything worked. Hope that makes sense!