On 3 Aug 00, at 14:06, Michael Worsley wrote:

Hi all,

Apologies for the newbie question but... I'm having problems installing and compiling GPC under Cygwin32

I've got a nice clean cygwin installation, downloaded the gcc-2.95.2 source and the gpc source and, after several trials and tribulations relating to include paths, patch files and so on, make gets as far as:

cd p/rts && \ CC="`echo /usr/local/src/build/gcc/xgcc -B/usr/local/src/build/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-cygwin32/bin/ -I/usr/local/i686-pc-c ygwin32/include' ' | sed -e 's,-B([^/][^:]),-B../../\1,g;s,^([^/][^:]),../../\1,'`" PC="`echo ./xgpc -B./' ' | sed -e 's, -B([^/][^:]),-B../../\1,g;s,^([^/][^:]),../../\1,'`" CONFIG_SITE=nonexisting-file \ $src/p/rts/configure --silent > /dev/null --srcdir=$src/p/rts \ `if [ x@with_shared@ = xyes ]; then echo '--with-shared'; fi`

configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. make[1]: *** [p/rts/Makefile] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/build/gcc' make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2

Any suggestions as to why GCC appears to be fritzed? Is it Cygwin's gcc that is at fault here, or somethig generated while making gpc?

I have encountered this problem many times in the past. It is the gcc that is built when compiling gcc that has a problem. I cannot now remember what I did to overcome that particular problem, but I believe that it had to do with making sure that gcc could find it's support files and libraries. You may need to set one or more of these;

LIBRARY_PATH C_INCLUDE_PATH GCC_EXEC_PREFIX

Best regards, The Chief -------- Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Author of: Chief's Installer Pro v5.22.1 for Win32 http://www.bigfoot.com/~African_Chief/chief32.htm Email: African_Chief@bigfoot.com