From: tomas <to...@tu...> - 2010-12-28 14:25:20
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Hi, group a co-worker of mine is trying to set up MinGW for Windows (XP SP2, if that matters). He had initial difficulties trying to compile anything, that was the oobserved behaviour vor gcc -c: gcc 3.x -> pause, crash, "this application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an abnormal way" gcc 4.x -> error message, pause, crash, "this application ..." where "error message" above is: "Cannot create C:\Temp\:" (note the trailing colon). Creating C:\Temp fixes the problem. At first blush it looks like a permissions issue, but the user invoking the compiler is the same as the one creating C:\Temp. Searching through the archives, I've come up with <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/26849> but I can't even say wheter this is related or not. Thanks for any insights. Regards -- tomás |
From: tomas <to...@tu...> - 2010-12-29 08:08:22
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Following up on my own post (I know, I know): this failure happens whenever the environment variables TMP and TEMP both point to a non-existing directory. The error message is somewhat misleading, so posting this here in the hopes that it be found by other stray souls with the same problem. I don't know how stringent the criteria for a bug are: I'd be willing to file a bug report (better error message on missing temp dir or something) if there is some support for that view. Thanks and regards -- tomás |