Launch failed. Binary not found. Why?

Question

I am on Windows 7 32 bit using Eclipse Juno. I have installed the CDT plugin. I have also installed Cygwin and the necessary files from packages like gdb, gcc, gawk, make etc.

I still get a Binary Not Found error. I had a look at this question Launch Failed Binary not found Eclipse for C in Windows tried everything but there seems to be no solution for it.

What is going wrong ?

Did you get a compiled binary using 'Build Project' (instead of directly using 'Run' or 'Debug')?? — πάντα ῥεῖ, Sep 13 '13 at 18:10
When using Cygwin on Windows7, I was experiencing I couldn't get stuff compiling and debugging properly, when I didn't start eclipse from a Cygwin shell. — πάντα ῥεῖ, Sep 13 '13 at 18:14
Just start a Cygwin shell window and type in the path to your eclipse installation's executable (append a `&` character to run it as background process). Use `/cygdrive/` to refer to windows drive character `x:`. — πάντα ῥεῖ, Sep 13 '13 at 18:55
I have actually removed Cygwin from my windows installation, but it should be something like this: `> "/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/eclipse/eclipse.exe"&` — πάντα ῥεῖ, Sep 13 '13 at 19:06
Tried. Didnt work. I just got a few more blank `>` on next line — An SO User, Sep 13 '13 at 19:08
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/37363/discussion-between-g-makulik-and-little-child) — πάντα ῥεῖ, Sep 13 '13 at 19:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '15 at 02:23

There can be multiple reasons for this :

First : Select Preference (click on Eclipse in MAC machine left top OR Windows from menu in Windows OS to find preferences) --> C/C++ --> New c/c++project wizard--> change to MACOS GCC (for mac) or Cygwin GCC (for windows)

Second : I had the similar issue but code was different. In File.h file make sure

virtual ~Destructor () {}; //Don't forget Curly braces {}

Above statement shows destructor initialized () and defined with curly braces { } . In my code I forgot to define Destructor. Hope this helps

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '13 at 16:47

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Go to Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> New C/C++ Project Wizard -> Makefile Project.

Choose one the following parsers and try with a new project.

PE Windows parser
Cygwin PE parser

answered Oct 07 '13 at 16:47

AdityaTS

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Brian · Answer 3 · 2015-01-22T02:47:53.383

I was also receiving "Launch failed. Binary not found." My problem was AVAST Anti-virus. My Hello World C program would compile in eclipse CDT using the Windows PE Parser and mingw gcc compiler, but there was NO EXE FILE!!!! AVAST Antivirus was identifying the exe file as a false positive and removing it....grrrrr. The solution was to add the eclipse workspace folder to the exclusions list. Voila!! Eclipse generated my test.exe file.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 20 '15 at 07:45

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Run eclipse from a cygwin shell :

pathToEclipse/eclipse.exe

Choose compilator cygwin Gcc when you build a new project.

Build and Run work now.

answered Aug 20 '15 at 07:45

Maaehj

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 07 '17 at 05:24

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Simply go to the project(main manu)-> Build all This will solve your problem.

answered Feb 07 '17 at 05:24

vishakha

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