Netbeans has stopped compiling C++ what did I break? - c++

Question

I am running on a Windows 7 64 laptop
And trying to develop C++ with NetBeans.
I really know very little about makefiles or cygwin or this whole ecosystem, so it is a mystery to me.
Least year I installed NetBeans (8.0) it worked fine.
Yesterday I tried to use it but it seems to have stopped working.
Possibly this is because I tried a lot of things to try to get NDK development to work for Eclipse and moved things and or changed critical system variables.
I failed in this but probably messed up my system still farther.
I tried to install the new version of NetBeans (8.1) and I got all sorts of messages about the JDK.
Despite fighting with that for a few hours I was unable to fix these messages however it seems to let me open a simple program and try to compile it but the compile fails yet again.
Since the last time I used NetBeans I also installed, among other things, Visual C++ 2015 (at least this worked for the NDK work).
Help !
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
return 0;
}
When I press the hammer and broom icon (clean and compile) I get these error messages:
"/C/MinGW/MSYS/1.0/bin/make.exe" -f nbproject/Makefile-Debug.mk QMAKE=
SUBPROJECTS= .clean-conf
make.exe[1]: Entering directory `/c/Users/Andre/Documents/NetBeansProjects/hello compiler'
rm -f -r build/Debug
rm -f dist/Debug/MinGW-Windows/hello_compiler.exe
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/Andre/Documents/NetBeansProjects/hello compiler'
CLEAN SUCCESSFUL (total time: 853ms)
"/C/MinGW/MSYS/1.0/bin/make.exe" -f nbproject/Makefile-Debug.mk QMAKE= SUBPROJECTS= .build-conf
make.exe[1]: Entering directory `/c/Users/Andre/Documents/NetBeansProjects/hello compiler'
"/C/MinGW/MSYS/1.0/bin/make.exe" -f nbproject/Makefile-Debug.mk dist/Debug/MinGW-Windows/hello_compiler.exe
make.exe[2]: Entering directory `/c/Users/Andre/Documents/NetBeansProjects/hello compiler'
mkdir -p build/Debug/MinGW-Windows
rm -f "build/Debug/MinGW-Windows/main.o.d"
g++ -c -g -MMD -MP -MF "build/Debug/MinGW-Windows/main.o.d" -o build/Debug/MinGW-Windows/main.o main.cpp
make.exe[2]: *** [build/Debug/MinGW-Windows/main.o] Error 1
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/Andre/Documents/NetBeansProjects/hello compiler'
make.exe[1]: *** [.build-conf] Error 2
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/Andre/Documents/NetBeansProjects/hello compiler'
make.exe": *** [.build-impl] Error 2
BUILD FAILED (exit value 2, total time: 960ms)
Does anyone even know how to interpret this output?
Thanks
Andre'

Answer 1

As commented by M.M, MinGw doesn't support blanks in path names. Using a path without such should work.