Re: Why make with --win32 option don't accept C:\cygwin\bin\g++.exe to build a rule?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:50:01PM -0300, Leandro Gustavo Biss Becker wrote:
>Why make with --win32 option don't accept C:\cygwin\bin\g++.exe to build a
>rule like this
>
>main.cpp : main.o
>    c:\cygwin\bin\g++.exe -g main.cpp
>
>The make gives the following error:
>
>make: C:\cygwin\bin\g++.exe: Command not found
>make: *** [main.o] Error 127
>
>But if I use:
>
>main.cpp : main.o
>   g++.exe -g main.cpp
>
>it works well ?
>
>PS.: I have this working at a long time ago, with a older cygwin1.dll.
>Now I have the latest version of it and it don't work. (My system is W2K
>SP2)

It's a bug in cygwin.  It will be fixed in the next release.

Until then, do this:

main.cpp : main.o
	c:/cygwin/bin/g++.exe -g main.cpp
          ^      ^   ^

cgf


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