Createprocess() failed with error code 2: the system cannot find the file specified.

Question

Problem :

I am completely new to the Notepad++ and C++ programming language. I am unable to figure out that what has gone wrong in my coding, may be it might look simple to resolved to many. I tried a lot to search for the solution, but without any success. While I was trying to config my application for C++ compiler on the Windows 8.1, I encountered the following message:

NPP_SAVE: C:\Users\alecxe\Desktop\MyHelloWorld.cpp

CD: C:\Users\alecxe\Desktop

Current directory: C:\Users\alecxe\Desktop

Compiled.exe -c -w "MyHelloWorld.cpp"

CreateProcess() failed with error code 2:

The system cannot find the file specified.

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My C++ basic code very simple to testing only as below :

// My first hello world program in C++

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

    cout << "My Hello World!";

    return 0;

}

The NppExec script taken as below :

NPP_SAVE

CD $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)

Compiled.exe -c -w "$(FILE_NAME)"

Please guide me in resolving this issue.

Answer 1

All will boils down to the compiler which you want to use... which one are you going to use? The MSVC (Microsoft Visual Studio) ?

Example: if you already have MSVC2010 installed you might use it as below :

1.    Please execute the Start->All Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio 2010->Visual Studio Tools->Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)

2.    After that  do Digit cl (yourFileName).cpp

3.    And you are done, yourFileName.exe should now exist

So the above can be rewritten as below :

cl.exe "$(FILE_NAME)"

after making sure that the path to cl.exe is correctly available.

This will resolve your issue.