Cygwin 1.7 : Checking -fPIC Failed when building the gcc 4.5.1 with --enable-plugin

[Dave Korn]

On 23/12/2010 05:54, Lucky Lu wrote:
> I am having trouble with building the gcc 4.5.1 with --enable-plugin on Cygwin.

  Sorry, GCC plugins are only supported on systems that use the ELF executable
file format such as Linux, they can't work on Windows-based systems owing to
limitations of the PE-COFF file format.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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