Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B444EE5.20603@niles.de> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:26:29 +0200 From: "Mader, Alexander" Organization: NILES Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Hones CC: Paul.Moore@atosorigin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't run Mingw gcc from Cygwin References: <714DFA46B9BBD0119CD000805FC1F53B01B5AED2@ukrux002.rundc.uk.origin-it.com> <200107051109.MAA18531@trillian.uk.aonix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Alexander Mader Fon: +49-30-93033-636 NILES Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Fax: +49-30-93033-603 www.niles.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/