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PMAprogrammer · Aug 25th, 2007, 4:22 PM

Hey guys,

My friend and I just recently started creating a win32 application in Codeblocks IDE. To start we created the simplest window you can make. It does nothing except draw itself on the screen and wait for someone to close it. Codeblocks lets me compile/run my program only once though. When my program executes I exit properly and codeblocks tells me that the process terminated. The thing is, every time after that when I try to compile it gives me this:

Switching to target: default
Linking executable: D:\Temp\Win32Test\Win32GUI.exe
D:\Apps\CodeBlocks\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.4\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot open output file D:\Temp\Win32Test\Win32GUI.exe: Invalid argument
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
0 errors, 0 warnings

It seems as though after one execution of my program windows won't let go of the .exe file. I can't even go to the directory and delete it or anything. It just won't let me touch it. It only let's me compile the program once every time I start my computer..then it acts like I never closed the window and the program is still running. I'd love to be able to make more then one change to my program every time I turn my computer on

. Any ideas?

Aug 25th, 2007, 4:22 PM	#1
PMAprogrammer Newbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Cannot open output file error Hey guys, My friend and I just recently started creating a win32 application in Codeblocks IDE. To start we created the simplest window you can make. It does nothing except draw itself on the screen and wait for someone to close it. Codeblocks lets me compile/run my program only once though. When my program executes I exit properly and codeblocks tells me that the process terminated. The thing is, every time after that when I try to compile it gives me this: Switching to target: default Linking executable: D:\Temp\Win32Test\Win32GUI.exe D:\Apps\CodeBlocks\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.4\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot open output file D:\Temp\Win32Test\Win32GUI.exe: Invalid argument collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds) 0 errors, 0 warnings It seems as though after one execution of my program windows won't let go of the .exe file. I can't even go to the directory and delete it or anything. It just won't let me touch it. It only let's me compile the program once every time I start my computer..then it acts like I never closed the window and the program is still running. I'd love to be able to make more then one change to my program every time I turn my computer on . Any ideas?