GCC is not recognizes as an internal or external command | VS code

VS code error faced by most beginners who are learning to program in C language. Since VS Code IDE is the most popular one so many beginners can face the same problem

Requirements:
- first you need to have a C compiler installed in the computer that can be GCC or MINGW
- Then you need to install the C extension from VS code
- At last, you can run using terminal or you can install code runner extension and press Ctrl + Alt + N to run code.

[yousefissa]

thank you! i've spent a solid 2-3 hours trying to fix this and you're the only one who helped.

[sct]

Nikesh you're a legend, saved me from lifelong pain

[sucrameD]

After hours of trying to configure c into my machine finally found the video that solved it thank you man your a legend <3.

[shscript]

Thanks dude everyone showed just set the bin folder it never worked for over 3 hours man, now it finnally like after i found your video just that gcc bit, thanks so much

[sumitsingh]

You are saviour bro. Very very thanks.

[tanjawisoussani]

there is always that indian who helo u out
thanks broo

[sahilignou]

thank u so much aaj 2 din baad ye prblm fix kar paaaya hu

[hunin]

hey thank you so much bro the reason why it did not work was because the path was not on top of all the others in the envoirmental variables. thank you!

[karis_henri]

Thanks, It's works on me!. You really save my day

[wf.i.]

How do I navigate to that file? I don't have that cygwin64 folder
Doesn't work if I search for "gcc"

[sumitkshirsagar]

At last in terminal i got error as no such file or directory gcc.exe : no input files. Please help me with this!!😢

[pramodverma]

Thank you so much bhai..finally resolved my problem.

[angshulsana]

The term 'gcc' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:31
+ cd "d:\coding\c\" ; if ($?) { gcc practice.c -o practice } ; if ($?) ...
+ ~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (gcc:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException