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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:26:29 +0200
From: "Mader, Alexander" <alexander DOT mader AT niles DOT de>
Organization: NILES Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
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To: Cliff Hones <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Can't run Mingw gcc from Cygwin
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Hallo,

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.

Best regards,

Alexander.

Cliff Hones wrote:

>>I'm trying to run the Mingw gcc compiler from within Cygwin. My reason is to
>>use Cygwin/bash to run configure, but to build the packages using Mingw, so
>>that they have no Cygwin dependency at runtime - yes, I know about
>>-mno-cygwin, and that is an option, I guess, but I'd prefer to use the Mingw
>>compiler if possible - not least as it builds executables which use MSVCRT
>>rather than CRTDLL.
>>
> 
> The latest version of the cygwin gcc (2.95.3-5) now uses msvcrt (and crt2.o)
> when the -mno-cygwin option is used.
> 
> 
>>However, if I add my Mingw binaries directory to the front of PATH, via
>>    export PATH=//c/Applications/Mingw/bin:$PATH
>>and try to compile a trivial program, I get an error
>>
>>$ gcc -o x.exe x.c
>>gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory
>>
> 
> mingw is not cygwin-aware, so may not behave quite as expected under cygwin bash.
> Try using the gcc "-v" flag to see which executables are being invoked.
> 
> -- Cliff
> 
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