RE: cannot execute binary on AMD Turion based laptop

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 24 July 2006 10:15, Keshavan Varadarajan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a laptop with AMD Turion processor running Windows XP SP2. I
> have installed cygwin on my laptop. I am having problems executing the
> programs I have compiled using gcc (that comes along with Cygwin). The
> following error is reported:
> $ ./dineroIV
> ./dineroIV: ./dineroIV: cannot execute binary file
> 
> I have checked the permissions on the file and it does have execute
> permissions. The file command indicates that it is a binary.
> $ file dineroIV
> dineroIV: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
> GNU/Linu x 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
> 2.2.5, 
> not stripped
 

 <boggle>  You appear to have inadvertently used a linux cross-compiler
instead of the cygwin native gcc.

> The version of the compiler installed is 3.4.4. Can you please help me
> with this?
> $ gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/specs
> Configured with: /gcc/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-3.4.4-1/configure --verbose
> --prefix=/usr -- exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib
> --libexecdir=/usr/lib --man dir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
> --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,d,f77, java,objc --enable-nls
> --without-included-gettext --enable-version-specific-runt ime-libs
> --without-x --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --with-system-zlib --ena
> ble-interpreter --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-threads=posix
> --enable-java-gc=b oehm --disable-win32-registry --enable-sjlj-exceptions
> --enable-hash-synchroniza tion --enable-libstdcxx-debug : (reconfigured) 
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)

  That is sooo not the compiler that actually built that file!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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