Complier problems....

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I'm working on a bear of a project. I need to compile an application into a windows executable.

I've been playing with MinGW and Msys and expat but I can't seem to get the damn thing to compile. It always barfs with a message "C compiler cannot create executable"

Anyone have any experience with this?

Have you double checked directory permissions? Did you compile a version to debug that might still be executing, thus preventing the compiler from being able to overwrite the executable?