RE: [Mingw-users] Error when using MinGW to compile

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

>From: John Windish <par...@ya...>
>
>I just installed MinGW and MSYS and I am encoutering the following error.  
>A Google search did not turn up anything helpful.  If anybody has any ideas 
>what may be causing it, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
>c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: 
>cannot find -lpcd
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>make: *** [srxlload2] Error 1
>

Apparently, you need the libpcd library to build your project. You can find 
the libpcd home page in Google.

I just tried it and it does not build in MSYS/Mingw. It needs mmap(), which 
is in the GNU C library. The GNUWin32 project has ported to Windows a subset 
of the library that includes mmap().

So far, I have not been able to build their port (libgw32c) from source, but 
GNUWin32 distributes binaries as well as source.