xdrc 'cpp.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command

External question — Stellar Stack Exchange Author: CZuTT Original post: https://stellar.stackexchange.com/questions/4122 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I am trying to build stellar-core on Windows. I have followed the instructions in the windows install markdown but I am getting the error below. Error MSB6006 "cmd.exe" exited with code 1. stellar-core could anyone help me out the reason for this Adding more info: Log info from output console: 2>------ Build started: Project: stellar-core, Configuration: DebugNoPostgres x64 ------ 2>running xdrc 2>'cpp.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 2>operable program or batch file.

External answer — Stellar Stack Exchange Author: CZuTT Original post: https://stellar.stackexchange.com/a/4123 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. In the markdown documentation, the below line should also tell you to choose GCC and sed In the MinGW Installation Manager in MSYS/MinGW Developer Toolkit choose Flex and Bison packages for installation