On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Arvind Raman wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to compile the xvid distribution in the > cygwin shell on my windows 2k box. On doing so I am > getting the following error > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > which I see is troubling quite a few other people. > I browsed through the messages on the list, but could > not really find a fix to my problem. I have > uninstalled and installed cygwin many times, and that > too doesnt seem to solve the problem. > As was requested of others I am attaching the outputs > of my ./configure and cygcheck -svr. > Could you please help me figure out where the problem > could be.
You have three options: 1) Upgrade Cygwin (which may help). We're currently at version 1.3.22 verging a 1.5.0 release. 2) Re-install the 'gcc' and/or 'gcc-mingw' package(s). Again..it may help. 3) Read `man chmod'... cd / chmod -R a+r . chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib/*.exe usr/X11R6/bin You might just need to `chmod u+rwx .' in your working directory, however. Elfyn -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/