need help compiling for Windows

[Sheryl Canter]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it's not the answer.

I'm now using MSYS because it's more straightforward, but I can't get that
to work either. In my profile file, I have this line:

CC=gcc CXX=gcc

This seems to be correct because when I type just $CC on a line in MSys it
lists the correct file:

$ $CC
gcc.exe: no input files

I also have my mingw directory correctly bound to MSYS in fstab:

C:/mingw   /mingw

The directory /c/mingw/bin is in my path.

When I try to configure gcc, I get this:

Administrator@TPA21P /c/gcc-objdir
$
c:/Software/gcc/gcc-3.3.1/configure --prefix=c:/gcc-3.3.1 --with-local-prefi
x
=c:/gcc/3.3.1
Configuring for a i686-pc-mingw32 host.
*** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
     target-libffi target-boehm-gc target-zlib target-libjava
    (Any other directories should still work fine.)
Created "Makefile" in /c/gcc-objdir using "mh-frag"
c:/Software/gcc/gcc-3.3.1/configure: c:mingwbingcc.exe: command not found
*** The command 'c:mingwbingcc.exe -o conftest -g   conftest.c' failed.
*** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.


I'm at my wits end over this. I've been at it all day and all evening. It's
nearly 2am.

    - Sheryl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Walford" <philip_walford@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Sheryl Canter" <sheryl@permutations.com>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: need help compiling for Windows


On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:27, Sheryl Canter wrote:
> I've been trying all day to compile GCC for Windows, and I just can't do
it.
> I'm using the MinGW compiler as a boot compiler and cygwin for the
> environment. I added c:\mingw\bin to the path, but I keep getting this
error
> message:

You said you're using cygwin?  Then you need to translate your paths to
use '/' rather than '\'.  Since cygwin is unix-like, '\x' is treated as
a way of escaping 'x'.  To include a '\' literally, you need '\\'.

Philip.