std::endl crashes Windows 8, compiled using MinGW

Question

I have 3 computers, two of which use Windows 8. Using the latest version of MinGW\'s g++ (4.8.1-4) my hello world program freezes whenever I compile and run on the Windows 8

Answer 1

I had the same issue and found after a long painful search that I had multiple versions of the mingw provided libstdc++-6.dll on my computer. One was part of the mingw installation the others were part of other installation packages (gnuplot and GIMP). As I had gnuplot in my PATH the compiled mingw exe it would use an older, incompatible version of this dll and crash with the described symptoms. I can, therefore, confirm Dietmar Kühl's suspicion. As suggested above linking the library statically obviously helps in this case as the library functions are included in the exe at compile time.