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Re: file not recognized:File format not recognized


On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, c dana wrote:

> I am a novice at cygwin.
> I edited a file "test.c" with notepad in windows.
> Then I compiled it with gcc in cygwin by typing:
> $ gcc test.c
> However I got the following error message:
>
> test.c: file not recognized:File format not recognized
> collect2: ld return 1 exit status.
>
> My OS is WinXp. Could anyone tell me what's wrong?
> Dana

You'd have to provide more details on your problem to get any reasonable
amount of help...  Below is a good place to start:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

It would have also helped if you actually attached the problem file.  One
WAG is that notepad tends to append a ".txt" suffix to the provided
filename, and if you had an older file called "test.c", you may not
actually be compiling the file you're expecting to compile.
	Igor
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