To Whom It May Concern,

I tried to locate any FAQ/manual information about the error I get but did not find any information. I installed MinGW and GNU Pascal on a windows machine and I can compile a program into an object file but I cannot go any further. When using gpcc the linker (ld.exe) fails with the following error:

========================== c:\MinGW\bin\gpcc test.p GPCC (Win32 (Mingw) build), v2.18: BP-compatibility shell for GNU Pascal. (c) 11th May 2002, Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief).

Compiling PROGRAM "test.p" ... CFG file = c:\mingw\bin\gpcc.cfg Args = [gpc --automake -s --no-typed-address --extended-syntax --ignore-function-results --no-io-checking --no-stack-checking -O2 -march=i486 -mcpu=i486 -O2 -mcpu=i686 --executable-file-name test.p]

\mingw\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\2.95.3-6........\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lgcc ==========================

I tried to point at the local copy of ld.exe and this error occured:

========================== c:\MinGW\bin\gpcc test.p --L \mingw\bin\ld.exe GPCC (Win32 (Mingw) build), v2.18: BP-compatibility shell for GNU Pascal. (c) 11th May 2002, Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief).

Compiling PROGRAM "test.p" ... CFG file = c:\mingw\bin\gpcc.cfg Args = [gpc --automake -s --no-typed-address --extended-syntax --ignore-function-results --no-io-checking --no-stack-checking -O2 -march=i486 -mcpu=i486 -O2 -mcpu=i686 \mingw\mingw32\bin\ld.exe --executable-file-name test.p -l ]

\mingw\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\2.95.3-6........\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -l--library=gpc =========================

The program (simple 'hello world' program) complies into an object file just fine with 'gpc -c test.p'. It would appear that gpc can find ld.exe but ld.exe is not responding correctally. I verified that the specs file is correct and tried both the install gpc and the patched gpc. Perhaps this is a problem with my MinGW install, however their mailing list archives are not functioning and I am unable to get any information from them. Below is my install details:

-- *MinGW 2.0.0-3 *GPC 2.1 (GNU Pascal version 2.1 (20020510), based on gcc-2.95.3-6 (mingw special) *GPC fix1 (20 sept. 2002 patch) *Windows 2000 Prof (sp3)

Any help or documentation would be helpful as I know nothing of this environment and am trying my best to learn it quickly.

Regards, David Hajoglou

::David Hajoglou ::Systems Administrator, Department of Computer Science ::Saint Mary's University of Minnesota ::Phone :: 507.457.1415 ::Fax :: 507.457.1401 ::Office :: LaSalle 141C ::Email :: dhajoglo@smumn.edu