From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-18T08:24:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling 1.8.1 for Windows using mingw

In article <200403172219.i2HMJk2B006552@sharui.nakada.niregi.kanuma.tochigi.jp>,
 <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>At Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:54:34 +0900,
>Phil Tomson wrote in [ruby-talk:95151]:
>> I tried your suggestion:
>> 
>> $ ./configure CFLAGS='gcc -mno-cygwin'
>> checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
>> checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
>> checking target system type... i686-pc-cygwin  <-- this is not correct!
>
>Don't mind it.  configure checks for mingw32 environment later.
>
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C 
>> compiler
>>  cannot create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>
>Seems you haven't installed mingw package.  Check config.log.
>
 
I have it installed under cygwin - the cygwin package manager shows it 
installed, but when I looked in config.log it shows:

  checking for mingw32 environment: no

I do find the mingw32 headers, though.

....so looks like I need to install it seperately.

Phil