Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:58:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: =?big5?q?c=20dana?= cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: file not recognized:File format not recognized In-Reply-To: <20040604064321.66647.qmail@web16807.mail.tpe.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040604064321.66647.qmail@web16807.mail.tpe.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, c dana wrote: > I am a novice at cygwin. > I edited a file "test.c" with notepad in windows. > Then I compiled it with gcc in cygwin by typing: > $ gcc test.c > However I got the following error message: > > test.c: file not recognized:File format not recognized > collect2: ld return 1 exit status. > > My OS is WinXp. Could anyone tell me what's wrong? > Dana You'd have to provide more details on your problem to get any reasonable amount of help... Below is a good place to start: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html It would have also helped if you actually attached the problem file. One WAG is that notepad tends to append a ".txt" suffix to the provided filename, and if you had an older file called "test.c", you may not actually be compiling the file you're expecting to compile. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/