setting up protobuf with mingw windows - windows

Question

I am setting up protubuf with windows and mingw and it works fine in msys til i have to do this:
And in response it produces this log:
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
It was created by Protocol Buffers configure 2.4.1, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.65. Invocation command line was
$ ./configure --prefix=C:/Users/Samuel/Downloads/MSYS-20111123/msys/home/Samuel/protobuf-2.4.1
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uname -v = 2011-04-24 23:39
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configure:2642: checking host system type
configure:2655: result: i686-pc-mingw32
configure:2675: checking target system type
configure:2688: result: i686-pc-mingw32
configure:2731: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2799: result: /bin/install -c
configure:2810: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2860: result: yes
configure:3001: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:3040: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:3053: checking for gawk
configure:3069: found /bin/gawk
configure:3080: result: gawk
configure:3091: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:3113: result: yes
configure:3261: checking for gcc
configure:3291: result: no
configure:3354: checking for cc
configure:3401: result: no
configure:3457: checking for cl.exe
configure:3487: result: no
configure:3511: error: in `/home/Samuel/protobuf-2.4.1':
configure:3514: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
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#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "protobuf"
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#define PACKAGE_STRING "Protocol Buffers 2.4.1"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "protobuf#googlegroups.com"
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#define PACKAGE "protobuf"
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configure: exit 1
when i try instead executing the following command:
it acts really weird and gives no feedback when executing later commands, and then does not recognise the following line of code, which is used as a test to see if it has worked:
#include <google/protobuf/message.h>
Can you explain what is wrong and how to fix it
Edit:
I am going off of the advice given by Peter Remmers at:
here
Edit 2:
If I just run ./configure without a prefix I get the following:
msys text can be seen here
I am running windows 8 and am compiling in codeblocks to test if it has worked

Answer 1

What gives it away is this:
configure:3261: checking for gcc
configure:3291: result: no
This means there is no gcc in PATH. Make sure you add your MinGW's compiler toolchain bin directory to PATH.

Answer 2

Open the msys shell and try mounting
mount
If your MINGW path is missing, then you have to setup the $PATH variable.
Try adding the following line and a blank line to the file fstab in the subfolder msys/1.0/etc
C:\MinGW /mingw
More details: See here http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
If that does not work then you're probably missing the needed compiler. I.e. install the gcc compiler