-luser32 with recent gcc and cygwin-1.1.8

Jonathan Fosburgh syjef@mail.mdanderson.org
Mon Mar 5 11:03:00 GMT 2001


At 01:35 PM 3/5/01 -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 11:14 AM 3/5/2001, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
> >I recently upgraded cygwin to 1.1.8 and was having a few problems that 
> seemed to be coming from zsh (the problems no longer seem to be 
> happening, go figure) but when I was trying to rebuild zsh, I started 
> having problems with the configure script.  When it tests the C compiler 
> it fails due to ld not being able to find -luser32.  This seems to have 
> been used by a lot of other builds.  I am using a recent gcc 
> package.  What can I do to fix this?  Thank you.
> >
> >Jonathan Fosburgh
> >Software Systems Specialist III
> >Communications and Computer Services
> >UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
>
>
>Just a guess but it sounds to me like you upgraded only certain packages
>(or setup missed/had problems with some).  Try upgrading again and see if
>that helps.  You're probably looking for the win32api package to resolve
>this particular error but I can't promise you won't see other problems if
>you just pick-and-choose the packages you upgrade (even those I might 
>suggest)
>without an understanding of how they interrelate.
>

My gcc is at 2.95.2-6. The only things currently saying they require 
updating is openssh, squid (which is not installed) and termcap, I do not 
use the one from cygwin, instead I use the BSD termcap.  Everything else is 
up-to-date.


Jonathan Fosburgh
Software Systems Specialist III
Communications and Computer Services
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center


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