On 24 July 2006 10:15, Keshavan Varadarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop with AMD Turion processor running Windows XP SP2. I > have installed cygwin on my laptop. I am having problems executing the > programs I have compiled using gcc (that comes along with Cygwin). The > following error is reported: > $ ./dineroIV > ./dineroIV: ./dineroIV: cannot execute binary file > > I have checked the permissions on the file and it does have execute > permissions. The file command indicates that it is a binary. > $ file dineroIV > dineroIV: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for > GNU/Linu x 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux > 2.2.5, > not stripped
<boggle> You appear to have inadvertently used a linux cross-compiler instead of the cygwin native gcc. > The version of the compiler installed is 3.4.4. Can you please help me > with this? > $ gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/specs > Configured with: /gcc/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-3.4.4-1/configure --verbose > --prefix=/usr -- exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib > --libexecdir=/usr/lib --man dir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info > --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,d,f77, java,objc --enable-nls > --without-included-gettext --enable-version-specific-runt ime-libs > --without-x --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --with-system-zlib --ena > ble-interpreter --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-threads=posix > --enable-java-gc=b oehm --disable-win32-registry --enable-sjlj-exceptions > --enable-hash-synchroniza tion --enable-libstdcxx-debug : (reconfigured) > Thread model: posix > gcc version 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125) That is sooo not the compiler that actually built that file! 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/