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Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:49:55 +0100 (BST)
From:	Carl Hetherington <cth AT carlh DOT net>
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To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: Can't run Mingw gcc from Cygwin
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Moore, Paul wrote:

> From: Mader, Alexander [mailto:alexander DOT mader AT niles DOT de]
> > I faced similar problems with -mno-cygwin. So I installed the
> > mingw stuff and changed the PATH in ~/.bashrc to 
> > /cygdrive/where_mingw_is:$PATH and everything worked fine.
> > If I have to compile with pure cygwin I comment out this line.
> 
> That's what I did, but it doesn't work...
> 
> Administrator AT UKDCW5163 ~
> $ export PATH=/cygdrive/c/applications/mingw/bin:$PATH
> 
> Administrator AT UKDCW5163 ~
> $ gcc -v
> Using builtin specs.
> gcc version 2.95.3-4 (mingw special)
> 
> Administrator AT UKDCW5163 ~/gnu/id-utils-3.2d
> $ gcc -o x.exe x.c
> gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory
> 
> I'll reinstall Cygwin, just to be sure it isn't something silly...
> [pause, punctuated by the sound of disks thrashing...]
> Nope, it's still a problem.

Its a long shot, but...
You haven't got a new-but-not-the-newest version of MinGW have you?
There was a problem with the last but one release that cause this "cannot
exec 'cpp0'" malarky.

There's a patch available from the MinGW sourceforge site.
 
Carl


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