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Subject: Re: gcc does not execute - why ?
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Luca Bottura <Luca DOT Bottura AT cern DOT ch> wrote:
> I have a puzzling behaviour trying to run gcc (and the other gnu compilers)
> right after installing cygwing 1.7.1 on Pentium running XP, and adding gcc
> (using the gcc installer helper for the selection of packages in setup). The
> command
>
> gcc-3 test.c
>
> is executed but has no effect. No object, no executable, no message.

What does the following print?

gcc-3 -v test.c

Watch out for:
1) The output is called a.exe, not test.exe
2) "test" is a shell (sh, bash) built-in. If you create a test.exe and
the run test, it will run the built-in, not your test.exe

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