X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Ken Tilton Subject: old install instructions? -mnomingw being removed? Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 51 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Sorry, I am a complete noob to all this make/install/gcc stuff, I am just trying to make a fresh build of a DLL I have used for years to see if it resolves a problem. I installed cygwin 1.7.1 today on a windows 7 laptop. The directions for my library are great: "VER=8.4.12 SRCDIR=`pwd` cd $SRCDIR/tcl$VER/win env 'CC=gcc -mno-cygwin' ./configure --enable-threads make libtclstub84.a cd $SRCDIR/tk$VER/win env 'CC=gcc -mno-cygwin' ./configure --enable-threads make libtkstub84.a cd $SRCDIR/Togl env 'CC=gcc -mno-cygwin' ./configure --with-tcl=../tcl$VER/win --with- tk=../tk$VER/win make" That's from doc for the lib which is Togl, an OpenGL add-on widget to Tcl/Tk. Unfortunately the mailing list does not seem active, because: The first env command responds "C compiler cannot create executables" and refers me to the config.log. That has a few lines showing the -mno-cygwin flag has been removed and telling me to use a mingw-targeted cross-compiler. Not sure if those are warnings or that is why later what looks to be a hello- world-like little C compile reports failure leading next to the "cannot create exes" message. Googling did turn up a long-ago discussion mentioning deprecating no-mingw (and to my relief that this is not something poor know-nothings like me should encounter) but the obvious solution ("a mingw-targeted cross-compiler") did not work out two ways: 1. Just googling that did not cause anything to jump out at me. 2. I am wondering if this is a cross-compiler situaton, since I am on Windows trying to build a windows DLL. Any clues greatly appreciated! kt -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple