[Techtalk] Solved (most probably) issue with Cygwin

Yaroslav Fedevych jaroslawfd at ukrpost.net
Mon Feb 9 14:58:08 EST 2004


Rasjid Wilcox wrote:

> I don't think this is quite true.  Many unix programs compile 'out of the box' 
> on Cygwin, and since none of them make Windows API calls, I don't think they 
> would require the w32api package.  They will, however, require the 
> cygwin1.dll to run.

They do. You see, configure wants to link against luser32... ehrm, 
user32.dll to see if gcc is working. No header files, hence no result, 
so -- "Your compiler cannot create executables!"




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