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Error launching external scanner info generator [message #156650] Sat, 22 October 2005 18:04 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: _.hotmail.com

For the love of Pete, could someone plz tell me how to pull my head out my
@$$? I've Googled this till I was blue in the face and still no joy!!!

I've got Cygwin installed and added it's path to the system PATH variable,
as can be seen by the commands below. Yet, when I try to compile a simple
hello world file, I continue to get the error:

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Error launching external scanner info generator (gcc -E -P -v -dD
D:/Development/Projects/c++/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.c dt.make.core/spe
cs.c) HelloWorld October 22, 2005 10:35:36 AM 14

------------------------------------------------------------ ----


I'm using Eclipse 3.1.1 and CDT 3.0.0. Any assistance is greatly
appreciated!!! Thanks!

Signed,

Mr "Not so bright"



Output from DOS/CMD window
------------------------------------
Z:\>gcc
gcc: no input files

Z:\>make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Z:\>
Re: Error launching external scanner info generator [message #156732 is a reply to message #156650] Tue, 25 October 2005 09:05 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: cortell.austin.rr.com

This may be too obvious, but a PATH env var change via the OS GUI won't
take effect in an already running app (Eclipse), including an already open
console window. If you're re-launching Eclipse after the PATH change,
you're not doing so from an existing console window, right? Also, try
copying the gcc.exe executable to c:\WINNT just as a test. It won't work
from there stand-alone, but you should at least see some difference that
will help you determine if your problem is indeed a PATH one.

John

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:04:32 -0600, Mr. Not so bright <_@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> I've got Cygwin installed and added it's path to the system PATH
> variable,
> as can be seen by the commands below. Yet, when I try to compile a simple
> hello world file, I continue to get the error:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ----
> Error launching external scanner info generator (gcc -E -P -v -dD
> D:/Development/Projects/c++/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.c dt.make.core/spe
> cs.c) HelloWorld October 22, 2005 10:35:36 AM 14
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ----
>
>
> I'm using Eclipse 3.1.1 and CDT 3.0.0. Any assistance is greatly
> appreciated!!! Thanks!
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