Compiling under Cygwin

Hi all,

I tried to find anything about this in the archives, but since there’s no search
function I may have missed it. Please forgive me if so.

I am trying to compile 1.2.7 on Cygwin. The problem is apparently not related to
Cygwin installation or setup, as the error is the following:

/bin/bash …/…/libtool --mode=link
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -DENABLE_DUMMYVIDEO -DDISKAUD_SUPPORT -I…/…/src/video/wincom
mon -DENABLE_WINDIB -DUSE_ASMBLIT -I./hermes -I…/…/src/hermes -I/usr/include/m
ingw -DWIN32 -Uunix -mno-cygwin -I…/…/include -I…/…/include/SDL -I…/…/src
-I…/…/src/main/win32 -I…/…/src/audio -I…/…/src/video -I…/…/src/video/XFr
ee86/extensions -I…/…/src/events -I…/…/src/joystick -I…/…/src/cdrom -I…/.
/src/thread -I…/…/src/timer -I…/…/src/endian -I…/…/src/file -I…/…/src/t
hread -o libaudio.la SDL_audio.lo SDL_audiocvt.lo SDL_audiodev.lo
SDL_audiomem.lo SDL_mixer.lo SDL_wave.lo SDL_mixer_MMX.lo SDL_mixer_MMX_VC.lo
SDL_mixer_m68k.lo disk/libaudio_disk.la windib/libaudio_windib.la -mno-cygwin
rm -fr .libs/libaudio.lax
mkdir .libs/libaudio.lax
rm -fr .libs/libaudio.lax/libaudio_disk.a
mkdir .libs/libaudio.lax/libaudio_disk.a
(cd .libs/libaudio.lax/libaudio_disk.a && ar x
/home/vlad/SDL-1.2/src/audio/disk/.libs/libaudio_disk.a)
/home/vlad/SDL-1.2/src/audio/disk/.libs/libaudio_disk.a: No such file or
directory
c:\program\mingw\bin\ar.exe: make[3]: *** [libaudio.la] Error 9

The libaudio.la file exists.

Could anyone point me in the right direction, please?
Thank you in advance,
Vlad

I meant the /home/vlad/SDL-1.2/src/audio/disk/.libs/libaudio_disk.a exists.

/Vlad

Hi again,

It worked after I uninstalled MinGW (which came first in $PATH). I’m happy now,
but if there is anyone who knows why this would happen, I will be even happier
(as I have some stuff thet requires MinGW).

regards,
Vlad