C++ “Hello World.exe” crashes - “Hello World.exe has stopped working.” when used in command prompt

Question

I\'ve started learning C++ and wrote a \"Hello World\"-Program. When i try to run it in command prompt, it crashes and gives me a windows message saying \"Hello World.exe ha

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem. And what i found is that there might be different versions of the same DLL on my Path. So i simply moved my C:\MinGW\bin path from the end of the Path list to the front and now it's working. But maybe this solution breaks some other software that relies on the other version of the DLL file.