From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!! 27 Jan 1998 06:30:09 -0800 Message-ID: <19980127135106.15486.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: bafio AT dist DOT unige DOT it Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Tue Jan 27 04:52:59 1998 >Received: (from majordom AT localhost) > by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) id CAA29307; > Tue, 27 Jan 1998 02:27:36 -0800 (PST) >Received: from dist.dist.unige.it (dist.dist.unige.it [130.251.1.4]) > by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA29303 > for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 02:27:24 -0800 (PST) >Received: from split.com.dist.unige.it (split.com.dist.unige.it [130.251.8.20]) by dist.dist.unige.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA15423; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:28:02 +0100 >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:26:05 +0100 (MET) >From: Fabio Vignoli >X-Sender: bafio AT split DOT com DOT dist DOT unige DOT it >To: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden >cc: GNU-Win32 list >Subject: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!! >In-Reply-To: >Message-ID: >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Precedence: bulk > >Hi! > >I downloaded the mingw32 required packages and tried to install on my hd: > >1) In the installation page: > >http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/installation.html > >You wrote "I shall assume `C:\MINGW32' but another location should be >fine", but it seems that it's not, I tried another directory and gcc >couldn't find the "specs" file in the ...gcc-lib/... I use MINGW32 in a different path than C:\MINGW32. You need to check your environment variables. Make sure that the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX is correct. You must have MSDOS style paths and path separators. You must end GCC_EXEC_PREFIX with a \ > >But this is not a big problem ... :^) maybe you forgot a fixed macro in >the code or a new anvironment variable is needed . > >2) The problem I encountered when I tried to compile the dlltest or other >tests provided with the packages is more serious, maybe is my inexperience >in using the tool but it seems that WinMain does not exist in any of the >default libraries. (I used jam to compile it). > >I can't report the exact error message because I'm not at home but it >seems that it can't find a reference to WinMain AT 16. > I believe you need to add a switch to indicate windows. In cygwin32 it is -mwindows. I don't know if it has changed for MINGW32. >Thanks for your attention, >Fabio >-----------------------------ooooO*O*Ooooo--------------------------- >Fabio Vignoli o o (e-mail: bafio AT dist DOT unige DOT it) >http://www-dsp.com.dist.unige.it/ ^ ( vignoli AT ebi DOT it) >DIST University of GENOVA `-' ( tel ++39.10.3532803) >PGP fingerprint = E4 44 95 92 3B 23 2F 77 5D 15 44 9B 46 E6 8B B5 >-----------------------------ooooO*O*Ooooo--------------------------- > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".