I installed Geany on Windows but I cannot compile anything. I get the following error:

"06:48:32: Process failed (Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory))"

 

I ran Geany -d from the command line, but there isn't any difference, and the error message is almost the same:"

"g_spawn_async_with_pipes() failed: Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory)"

 

Then I found out that Geany also needs a compiler (well, how was I supposed to know that? When using Visual Studio I don't need to install any compilers).

 

In any case I installed MinGW, and i set the path to the g++.exe in Geany, and still the same error.

This was the path to the compiler: C:\MinGW\bin\g++ -Wall -c "%f"

 

I also installed cygwin32, and set the path to its g++: C:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\g++ -Wall -c "%f"

but again the exact same error.

 

I don't understand why is it so complicated to get to compile a simple "hello world" program.

 

If anyone has any idea, I would really appreciate it.