[Techtalk] Solved (most probably) issue with Cygwin

Rasjid Wilcox rasjidw at openminddev.net
Tue Feb 10 00:46:11 EST 2004


On Monday 09 February 2004 22:58, Yaroslav Fedevych wrote:
> 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!"

Fair enough.  I stand corrected.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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