On 26/04/2017 20:54, Papa wrote: > I am using the latest version of MinGW64 and wxWidgets on my win8.1 machine. > > Following the tutorial in the wx\docs\msw\install.txt I've decompressed > it and added the %WXWIN% directory to the path, however, when entering > mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc 2>build.txt at the cmd promp I get this > error in the build.txt > -------- > > process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, C:/gnu/wx/ -c "if not exist gcc_mswud > mkdir gcc_mswud", ...) failed. > make (e=5): Access is denied. > > mingw32-make: [gcc_mswud] Error 5 (ignored) > process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, C:/gnu/wx/ -c "if not exist > ..\..\lib\gcc_lib mkdir ..\..\lib\gcc_lib", ...) failed. > make (e=5): Access is denied. > > mingw32-make: *** [..\..\lib\gcc_lib] Error 5 > --------------- > > > Does any one know what could be causing this problem? I don't think the problem comes from gcc. You might try one of the wxWidgets support channels. (Users mailing list, web forums, or IRC) https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/ https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/irc/ https://forums.wxwidgets.org/ Regards.