Re: [Mingw-users] Current MinGW GCC gives no output on failures?

[Clive C. <cl...@cr...>]

The zero byte was a simplified example. Any errors, at all, for any reason
(eg missing includes, for instance) give me no output, no indication of
error, no result file, nothing printed (exit code 1).

Clive

On Wed, 20 May 2015 at 12:03 KHMan <kei...@gm...> wrote:

> On 5/20/2015 4:59 PM, Clive Crous wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with failed compiles not giving any output at
> > all (unless the input source file is completely missing).
> >
> > I've used mingw-get to install everything on my system, and it
> > appears that gcc/g++ simply don't output errors anymore? Is there
> > something I'm missing here?
> >
> > I've attached a screenshot.
>
> With a zero byte a.c, I've consistently got:
> $ gcc a.c
>
> e:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../libmingw32.a(main.o):(.text.startup+0xa7):
> undefined reference to `WinMain@16'
> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> If you compile-only using -c, then the zero byte a.c gives a 406
> byte a.o file. Using installed gcc 4.8.1, I didn't install
> everything though.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
> Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
>
>
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