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

purlogic's solution works. Instead to set that for every project, I found it can be set globally:

In Window -> Preferences-> C/C++ -> Build -> Environment Add a variable for your compiler. e.g, I added: MINGW, with value "C:\MinGW\bin"