> From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" > Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 12:33:44 PM > Subject: Re: It's back -- "gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory"
> On 06/02/2014 12:28 PM, David Friedman wrote: > <snip> >> as -v -o /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/friedman/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccASOmoc.o >> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/friedman/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccGXQsYR.s >> gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory >> >> Does "as" mean the assembler? If it's not in /bin or /usr/bin, where is it? > It is in /usr/bin. > <https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51-3&grep=as.exe> > -- > Larry ________ I ran find for as.exe, and it turned out to be in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin. Added that to my PATH, and now gcc goes past that point and fails with: /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -ladvapi32 /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -lshell32 /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -luser32 /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -lkernel32 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Ran find for *advapi32*, and found libadvapi32.a in /usr/lib/w32api. Added that to my PATH, and got the same error again. At this point I can only conclude that there is something wrong with my Cygwin installation, that something failed to complete on the gcc 4.3.4 to 4.8.3 update; it was working fine before this. All I can think of to do is wipe out Cygwin and do a complete up-to-date reinstall. Meanwhile I installed MinGW with MSYS and this gives me a gcc 4.8.3 that I can at least finish my current project with. Larry: Thanks for sticking with me so far. - dhf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
