Unexpected fail when running C++ code with Sublime Text 2 on Windows8 - c++

Question

I just begin to use sublime text 2 on my laptop. I want to compile and run C++ code using sublime text 2.
I installed MinGW and g++, and changed the path environment to include the path where MinGW was installed.
I opened sublime text 2 and wrote a simple C++ program, named test.c, to do the test.
#include "stdio.h"
# test.c
int main()
{
printf("hello");
}
I did Ctrl+B to compile and got the message:
[Finished in 0.8s].
I used Ctrl+Shift+B to run it and got the following message.
[Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
[cmd: [u'bash', u'-c', u"g++ 'C:\Users\me\Desktop\test.c' -o 'C:\Users\me\Desktop/test' && 'C:\Users\me\Desktop/test'"]]
[dir: C:\Users\me\Desktop]
[path: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4;C:\MinGW\bin;]
[Finished]
I tried to solve this problem and did the following things.
i. Sublime Text 2 --> Tools --> Build System --> New Build System
ii. in the newly opened window in sublime, I input the following commands.
{
"cmd": ["g++", "${file}", "-o", "${file_path}/${file_base_name}"],
"file_regex": "^(..[^:]*):([0-9]+):?([0-9]+)?:? (.*)$",
"working_dir": "${file_path}",
"selector": "source.c, source.c++",
"variants":
[
{
"name": "Run",
"cmd" : ["${file_path}/${file_base_name}"]
}
]
}
iii. I saved the file as gcc.sublime-build and went back to run test.c.
However, the test.exe was not run appropriately and Win8 showed this window, which says
test.exe has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
I got this message from sublime text after closing the window:
[Finished in 7.6s with exit code 255].
I don't why and how to fix it.

Answer 1

Why don't you simply install Visual Studio? It includes both compiler and code editor, so you don't need to waste your time on setting up buggy software like Sublime.