Eclipse CDT using MinGW does not output in console

Question

I have a Windows 7 64-bit PC and I am trying to install a free C++ IDE, so I chose to install Eclipse Helios with CDT.

For g++, make and gdb I installed msys and min

Answer 1

This console bug has been noticed in 64-bit versions of eclipse:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=197552&start=0&S=2a2b64e1f1404705c0214976bd477428

A workaround is to install the 32-bit eclipse