title: Why doesn't MinGW show up in the list of Eclipse/Indigo CDT Toolchains?
body: <p>I am trying to set up a C/C++ development environment on Eclipse (Indigo) running on my Windows 7 desktop. I have installed MinGW onto my C drive <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-124.htm">per the instructions at eclipse.org</a>, and added the environment variable *MINGW_HOME* set to <em>C:\MinGW</em> and added <em>C:\MinGW\bin</em> to my path.</p>
  
  <p>When I run eclipse and try to create a new C or C++ project, I should be seeing MinGW as one of the available Toolchains in the project creation wizard dialog. Instead, all I see in the list of available toolchains is: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>--Other Toolchain--</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>When I select <em>Tool Chain Editor</em> from the project properties, the only selectable "Current toolchain:" is <em>No ToolChain</em>.</p>
  
  <p>I can see that C:\MinGW is installed, and I can run gcc and g++ from a CMD prompt window, so I am pretty sure that I have path set correctly.</p>
  
  <p>The only troubleshooting suggestion I can find at the eclipse site is <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/FAQ#I_installed_MinGW_toolchain_on_my_PC_but_Eclipse_won.27t_find_it.">I installed MinGW toolchain on my PC but Eclipse won't find it</a> but none of those suggestions work.</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing here?</p>