ld.exe: cannot open output file … : Permission denied

Question

I recently installed CodeBlocks with mingw32 on Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit in order to dust off my c skills, but this problem has me somewhat stumped.

I decided to fir

Answer 1

It may be your Antivirus Software.

In my case Malwarebytes was holding a handle on my program's executable:

Using Process Explorer to close the handle, or just disabling antivirus for a bit work just fine.