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Re: GCC Compilation Error
Igor,
Never mind. I think I was able to get this.. I included a '.' in the PATH
variable, and everything is fine.
Thank you again for your help.
Paul
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Paul Bezzam wrote:
>
> Igor,
>
> Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. I did install the
> package, and there was no error message. However, when I try to execute
> the .exe file that results in compiling the C file(hello.c), I get:
> bash: hello.exe: command not found
>
> Can you please offer your insight?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Paul Bezzam wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a question: I recently installed Cygwin, and I am trying to compile
> > > a C program. But I get this message after I use the compile command:
> > >
> > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.0/../.i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: Cannot find
> > > -luser32
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > >
> > > I am pretty new at this..Can you please offer any help.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Paul
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > When the linker receives a -lBLAH flag, it looks for a file called
> > libBLAH.a (on Cygwin, also libBLAH.dll.a or BLAH.dll). The Cygwin package
> > search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/> shows that "libuser32" is
> > contained in the w32api package. This means that to compile your program
> > you need to install that package (using Cygwin setup.exe). HTH,
> > Igor
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