unclear what Settings->GnuCOBOL->Add compiler-> locate compiler wants me to select and wrong detail parsing

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It seems that is much better than the old way - which is still what is documented: https://github.com/mridoni/gix/blob/main/doc/tutorial.md

I've selected "D:/dev/msys64/mingw64" and this seems to be the correct thing; just adding some text what to select (maybe "base directory of the installation containing ..." - whatever you look for) would help a lot.

Note: the internal logic to check what is installed seems to be unfinished:

with the details showing

cobc (GnuCOBOL) 3.2-dev.0
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
Dies ist freie Software; die Kopierbedingungen stehen in den Quellen. Es gibt
KEINE Garantie; auch nicht für MARKTGÄNGIGKEIT oder FÜR SPEZIELLE ZWECKE.
Written by Keisuke Nishida, Roger While, Ron Norman, Simon Sobisch, Edward Hart
Erstellt  Sep 08 2022 18:21:51
Gepackt   Aug 31 2022 19:48:35 UTC
C-Version (MinGW) "12.2.0"

Build-Informationen
Build-Umgebung           : x86_64-w64-mingw32
CC                       : gcc
C-Version                : (MinGW) "12.2.0"
CPPFLAGS                 : -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1
                           -ID:/Dev/msys64/mingw64/include
                           -I/mingw64/include
CFLAGS                   : -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -ggdb3
                           -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -pipe
                           -fsigned-char -Wall -Wwrite-strings
                           -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-format-y2k
LD                       : D:/Dev/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe
LDFLAGS                  : -pipe

GnuCOBOL-Information
COB_CC                   : gcc
COB_CFLAGS               : -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -pipe -pipe
                           -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1
                           -ID:/Dev/msys64/mingw64/include
                           -I/mingw64/include -I/mingw64/include
                           -Wno-unused -fsigned-char -Wno-pointer-sign
COB_DEBUG_FLAGS          : -ggdb3 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
COB_LDFLAGS              : -pipe
COB_LIBS                 : -L/mingw64/lib -lcob
COB_CONFIG_DIR           : /mingw64/share/gnucobol/config
COB_COPY_DIR             : /mingw64/share/gnucobol/copy
COB_MSG_FORMAT           : GCC
COB_OBJECT_EXT           : o
COB_MODULE_EXT           : dll
COB_EXE_EXT              : exe
64bit-mode               : ja
BINARY-C-LONG            : 4 Bytes
Bytereihenfolge          : Little-Endian
Natives EBCDIC           : nein
Erweiterte Bildschirm-Ei : pdcurses
Dateiformat für Variable : 0
Verarbeitung sequenziell : eingebaut
indexed file handler     : BDB
Mathematische Bibliothek : GMP
XML-Bibliothek           : libxml2
JSON-Bibliothek          : cjson

I guess this is related to the translated msgids. I'd suggest to export LANG=C before this is called to solve that.
Also note for

gix/gix-common/buildsystem/CompilerManager.cpp

Line 145 in 277be8f

arguments << "-info";

that it should be --info (double hyphen).

.. and a last note: it would be useful to pre-set the compiler name with content derived from the check, in the case above it could be "GC 3.2 x64 GCC (MinGW) 12.2.0" for example.