16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem -- The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction

[Volker Quetschke]

Hi!

Vsevolod Buzinov wrote:

> Hello everybody.
> 
> I has encountered an NTVDM CPU error while trying to make a cygwin hosted
> linux crossgcc compiler.
> I wonder if it is a known issue and is there any way to deal with this?


Yes, you get such an error when you try to start a cygwin program with a 
symlink to this program under Win2k cmd.exe (no cygwin aware shell). Eg. 
tar is a link to gtar.exe, or zcat to gzip.exe.

Solution: remove the link, copy the program.

Bye

    Volker


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