I am working on windows machine. I have last org version (from february 2017). I have a remote host accessible by putty, where i have created org file of the following contents: #+TITLE C language things * Simple hello-world program #+NAME hello world on C #+BEGIN_SRC C :dir /pscp:tcl:/home/tc/development :main no #include int main() { printf("Hello, world!"); return 0; } #+END_SRC where tcl is name of saved putty configuration When i evaluate codefragment, overall result is a failure (however, it is not a crash, and toggling debug on yields no backtrace) Here is what is output to *Message* buffer: executing C code block... Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816iL0.c to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/C-src-4816VBu.c... Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell... Tramp: Process has finished. Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816iL0.c to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/C-src-4816VBu.c...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816hfJ.exe to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/C-bin-4816UVD.exe... Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell... Tramp: Process has finished. Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816hfJ.exe to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/C-bin-4816UVD.exe...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816upP.c to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/C-src-4816VBu.c... Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell... Tramp: Process has finished. Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816upP.c to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/C-src-4816VBu.c...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816I-b to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/ob-input-48167zV... Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell... Tramp: Process has finished. Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816I-b to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/ob-input-48167zV...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816iSo to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/ob-error-4816VIi... Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell... Tramp: Process has finished. Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816iSo to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/ob-error-4816VIi...done Copying c:/Users/Ivan/AppData/Local/Temp/tramp.4816vcu to /pscp:tcl:/tmp/ob-input-48167zV...failed byte-code: Spawning child process: invalid argument What is going on there? What does error in the end mean? Most importantly, is code block being evaluated on remote host at all? Can output of org-babel commands be turned on to get that information?