On 11 July 2006 08:21, Guenther Sohler wrote: > Hallo, > > I have downloaded the lastest version cygwin yesterday, and wanted to use > gcc. Unfortunately no success. > I do a small test file a.c with just a simple main function and i type > > gcc -c a.c > > But there is no object file created. > > echo $? returns 1, which indicates an error, > > but I dont have any idea how to track down the problem. > I tried the latest version of gcc, and 3.3.3. > > How can I proceed ?
Add "-v" to the command-line, and you'll see what's going on in terms of the subcommands invoked by the gcc compiler driver; you should see which one fails. Make sure your binutils is installed OK. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/