can't upload simple programs on Arduino Uno - please help

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I just bought the sparkfun electronics "sparkfun inventor's kit".

I have downloaded the arduino IDE, verified the serial port, followed all the steps
listed in the booklet: " sparkfin inventors guide", page 03, ....

yet i cannot seem to upload any of the examples files, once opened.

For example when I try to upload the 'Blink' program, I get the following error message:

"Error compiling.
avr-g++: createProcess: No such file or directory"

this is very frustrating, can someone please help me ?

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Do you have Cygwin installed by any chance?
Also, remove any reference to "GCC_EXEC_PREFIX" from autoexec.bat and also remove it from the system variables list under system properties.

If not, what OS are you using?
What version of the Arduino IDE?

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Hi

thank you for your help. This is so frustrationg

  1. I am using Windows XP
  2. I did a file search and I do have cygwin files
    (specifically cygwin.dll in "arduino-1.01" folder and a few other places)

The version of Arduino IDE is 1.0.1
The kit is Arduino Uno which I just recently bought.

I am too afraid to start changing registry files without specific
detailed instruction of where to go and what to do...

Do you have any suggestions please?

Thanks