Re: [Mingw-users] Can't run Mingw gcc from Cygwin

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

Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to run the Mingw gcc compiler from within Cygwin. My reason is to
> use Cygwin/bash to run configure, but to build the packages using Mingw, so
> that they have no Cygwin dependency at runtime - yes, I know about
> -mno-cygwin, and that is an option, I guess, but I'd prefer to use the Mingw
> compiler if possible - not least as it builds executables which use MSVCRT
> rather than CRTDLL.
> 

Recent versions of Cygwin's GCC -mno-cygwin use the MSVCRT instead of
the CRTDLL.

> However, if I add my Mingw binaries directory to the front of PATH, via
>     export PATH=/cygdrive/c/Applications/Mingw/bin:$PATH
> and try to compile a trivial program, I get an error
> 
> $ gcc -o x.exe x.c
> gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory
> 

Danny explained this in another mail.

Earnie.

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