[Bug 17046] GCC/cygwin can't compile executables

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17046


Peter Ross <pross at xvid.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Peter Ross <pross at xvid.org>  2009-03-19 05:19:16 ---
This is caused by a missing feature or bug in wine that breaks cygwin's symlink
implementation. A cygwin symlink (sometimes called a fake symlink or simulated
symlink) is a file containing the text '!<symlink>path/to/target\0'.

All the files in /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin are cygwin symlink's to the actual
binary files in /usr/bin. Wine refuses to execute the symlink files, and
therefore gcc fails.

Until this bug is resolved, the following script can used to get cygwin gcc
working:

 for x in ar.exe as.exe ld.exe nm.exe ranlib.exe strip.exe ; do
     rm /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/$x
     ln -s /usr/bin/$x /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/$x
 done


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