Re: [Mingw-users] Problems with compiling GCC

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Mats Liljegren wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
>> Have you installed the mingw-runtime package in
>>   /homedirectories/home6/mlil/proj_links/mingw/cross/mingw32/
>>
>> Earnie.
> 
> 
> 
> Ehm, no...
> 
> So I downloaded the source, did a
> 
> ../mingw-runtime-3.0/configure 
> -prefix=/homedirectories/home6/mlil/proj_links/mingw/cross -target=mingw32
> 

Well, the prebuild binary should work.

> and tried make. It immediately spit out:
> 
> gcc -c -D__CRTDLL__ -U__MSVCRT__ -g -O2 -I 
> ../mingw-runtime-3.0/../w32api/include -I../mingw-runtime-3.0/include 
> -I../mingw-runtime-3.0/../include -nostdinc -nostdinc++ 
> -iwithprefixbefore include  ../mingw-runtime-3.0/crt1.c -o crt1.o
> In file included from ../mingw-runtime-3.0/crt1.c:38:
> ../mingw-runtime-3.0/include/float.h:35: float.h: No such file or directory
> ../mingw-runtime-3.0/crt1.c:40: windows.h: No such file or directory
> 

Oh, yes you need the w32api package as well.  The prebuild binary should 
work fot this as well.

> It seems like it expects an include directory parallell to the source 
> directory. Should I do a symbolic link pointing to /usr/include, so that 
> "-I../mingw-runtime-3.0/../include" becomes legal?
> 

The headers for your OS won't work for a mingw32 target, they aren't the 
same.  So, this symbolic link is bogus.

See http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-cross for more info.

Earnie.