Project in Codelite not compiling

Question

I am using Codelite 5.3 on Windows 7. I created a new workspace and added a new project in it. But when I try tobuild the project, Codelite is not compiling and ends with the Build Message:

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe;C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin /c "mingw32-make.exe -j 4 -e -f Makefile"

Nothing else. When I run the project, empty Output window appears (which happens when the project isn't built properly, still the project is run).

What should I do to fix this?

When I tried adding C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin in environmental variable Path, and tried to Build, then the Build Output I got is:

Failed to start build process, command: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe;C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin /c "mingw32-make.exe -j 4 -e -f Makefile", process terminated with exit code: 0C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe;C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin /c "mingw32-make.exe -j 4 -e -f Makefile"

Answer 1

The build command:

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe;C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin /c "mingw32-make.exe -j 4 -e -f  Makefile" 

is nonsense. It should be:

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "mingw32-make.exe -j 4 -e -f  Makefile"

where C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe is the system shell. But:

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe;C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin

is not even the pathname of any executable file, or even a pathname. It appears to be a PATH-like value invalidly prefixed with the name of the shell.

CodeLite (quite properly) obtains the shell name C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe from the value of the system environment variable ComSpec.

I believe the only way this in which this mess could have occurred is that the value of ComSpec has been trashed on the system before CodeLite runs.

Navigate Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advanced system settings -> Environment Variables and inspect ComSpec in the System variables. Also look for ComSpec or COMSPEC in the User variables in case a an overriding value has been set up there. If the value is not C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe then correct it.