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Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program
jblazi <jblazi@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 22:57, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> Try this instead:
>>
>> gcc -I/cygwin/usr/include test.c -o test.exe
>>
>> or
>>
>> gcc test.c -o test.exe -I/cygwin/usr/include
The -I option shouldn't be needed at all.
> So I did and now I receive a different set of error messages:
>
> d:\cygwin\home\Administrator\c-programme>gcc -I/cygwin/usr/include
> test.cpp -o test
> gcc -I/cygwin/usr/include test.cpp -o test
> In file included from test.cpp:1:
> \cygwin\usr\include\stdio.h:34: stddef.h: No such file or directory
> \cygwin\usr\include\stdio.h:37: stdarg.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from \cygwin\usr\include\sys\reent.h:14,
> from \cygwin\usr\include\stdio.h:45,
> from test.cpp:1:
> \cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h:22: stddef.h: No such file or
> directory In file included from \cygwin\usr\include\stdio.h:46,
> from test.cpp:1:
> \cygwin\usr\include\sys\types.h:59: stddef.h: No such file or
> directory
*Backslash paths* !?!?! From *Cygwin* gcc? Could you have some other gcc on
your Windows system?
Run the command "gcc -v" and post the output.
>> (by the way you don't need to add the .exe on the exec filename. and
>> just out of curiousity do you mean / instead of /cygwin?)
>
> I do not undertsnad what you mean. I installed Cygwin into d:\cygwin.
So / = d:\cygwin, but you don't want the -I option anyway.
> (The problem is that I hav no infrastructure on Windows so I change
> to Linux to answer my mails and then change back to Windows.)
> --
> Janos Blazi
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