Re: [Dev-C++] Installing Dev-C++ on Windows XP

My best guess is that it's not the installer engine that's the problem.

I don't have much (okay, any) experience with MinGW outside of DevCPP but in
my experience paths with spaces muck up a lot of things.  I would guess the
installer is smart to not let the user install to a long path name because
of limitations with either the compiler or one of the other tools associated
with it.  It's also just good practice on the Windows platform to keep it
simple whether or not you have any intention of later using any legacy
tools.  But I'm with you on never installing anything at the root of
%systemdrive%.

On 30/09/2007, Elliott Slaughter <ire...@gm...> wrote:
>
> The tilde is also a taboo character, and gets you the same error as white
> space.
>
> I guess I could install it to a new directory like C:\Bin\Dev-Cpp, but I
> would  prefer not to install it to C:\Dev-Cpp because I don't want random
> program subdirectories in the root directory.
>
> Are there any other options?
>
> I would like to comment to the makers of the install file that it should
> allow you to set the directory to any valid Windows directory without
> imposing limits on white space and such. While the default directory can be
> C:\Dev-Cpp, and while it might be a good idea in general to avoid white
> space and such in names, there really shouldn't be arbitrary limits stopping
> users from doing so if they really want to.
>