Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/06/19/04:41:53
foomf wrote:
> I just downloaded the CygWin package, including gcc (MynGW) because I had
been
> having no luck at all making MynGW work by itself on another machine.
> I have a simple app that defines static int main (int argc, char **argv)
{...}
Well, there's your problem then. No good making main static, as then
it won't be exported so the system can't see it to call it.
> Using the command 'gcc -o testit testit.c' generates the usual message:
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../libcygwin.a(libcmain.o
> (.text+0x7c): undefined reference to `_WinMain AT 16'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> The FAQ and the CygWin mailing list indicated that there might be some
> advantage to renaming /usr/lib/libm.a to /usr/lib/libm.a.16bit but that
had no
> effect.
That looks like bogus information. Rename it back to its correct name.
> Since there's already a main() in the program, it looks as though some
> configuration file somewhere might be causing a problem, but I'm not sure
> where to look. If it helps, I did a gcc -v:
> $ gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/specs
> Configured with: /netrel/src/gcc-3.2-3/configure --
>
enablelanguages=c,c++,f77,java --enable-libgcj --enable-threads=posix --with
-
>
system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-interpreter --
> disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-
>
shared --build=i686-pc-linux --host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin -
-
> enable-haifa --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --
> libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/nonexistent/include --libexecdir=/usr/sbin
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)
>
> I haven't found any generic makefiles or anything of that sort. Anyone got
a
> useful suggestion for a good place to look for the cause of this problem?
-- Cliff
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