How to compile C program on command line using MinGW?

Question

What command does one have to enter at the command line in Windows 7 to compile a basic C program?

Like I am literally wondering what you type in the command prompt, to

Answer 1

I am quite late answering this question (5 years to be exact) but I hope this helps someone.

I suspect that this error is because of the environment variables instead of GCC. When you set a new environment variable you need to open a new Command Prompt! This is the issue 90% of the time (when I first downloaded GCC I was stuck with this for 3 hours!) If this isn't the case, you probably haven't set the environment variables properly or you are in a folder with spaces in the name.

Once you have GCC working, it can be a hassle to compile and delete every time. If you don't want to install a full ide and already have python installed, try this github project: https://github.com/sophiadm/notepad-is-effort It is a small IDE written with tkinter in python. You can just copy the source code and save it as a .py file