During startup program exited with code 0xc0000139 [duplicate]

Answer 1

The code seems to have no errors. but as it mentioned above this has been a compiler issue so switching to Cygwin from MinGW has solved the error.

The error code 0xc0000139 appears when mis-configured, important files gone missing or damaged. so switching in to a totally different compiler has solved the problem.

hope this will help to improve this questions value @Daniel D.

Answer 2

your code looks correct. can you post the makefile too?

I'd try on command line something as simple as that: g++ sandbox.cpp -o sandbox