[vlc-devel] Cross-Compiling Error - C compiler cannot create executables

[Anik Varshney]

I may be wrong, but I kept getting the same error when I was trying to
compile on a 64 bit machine. Make sure you are on a 32 bit machine if you
are using mingw32ce.

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:26 AM, InfoEyes BJ <infoeyes2010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find that it is caused by the arm-mingw32ce-gcc.
>
> When I try arm-mingw32ce-gcc -o hello.exe helloworld.c, no hello.exe is
> generated. I will check arm-mingw32ce-gcc.
>
> 2010/8/16 InfoEyes BJ <infoeyes2010 at gmail.com>
>
>> with arm-mingw32ce-gcc, we also have:
>>
>> configure:4602: checking for arm-mingw32ce-gcc
>> configure:4618: found /opt/mingw32ce/bin/arm-mingw32ce-gcc
>> configure:4629: result: arm-mingw32ce-gcc
>>
>> configure:4898: checking for C compiler version
>> configure:4907: arm-mingw32ce-gcc --version >&5
>> configure:4918: $? = 0
>> configure:4907: arm-mingw32ce-gcc -v >&5
>> configure:4918: $? = 0
>> configure:4907: arm-mingw32ce-gcc -V >&5
>> configure:4918: $? = 0
>> configure:4907: arm-mingw32ce-gcc -qversion >&5
>> configure:4918: $? = 0
>>
>> configure:4938: checking whether the C compiler works
>> configure:4960: arm-mingw32ce-gcc  -I/usr/wince/include
>> -D_WIN32_WCE=0x0500 -L/usr/wince/lib conftest.c  >&5
>> configure:4964: $? = 0
>>
>> configure:5002: result: no
>> configure: failed program was:
>> | /* confdefs.h */
>> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "vlc"
>> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "vlc"
>> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.2.0-git"
>> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "vlc 1.2.0-git"
>> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
>> | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
>> | #define PACKAGE "vlc"
>> | #define VERSION "1.2.0-git"
>> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
>> |
>> | int
>> | main ()
>> | {
>> |
>> |   ;
>> |   return 0;
>> | }
>> configure:5007: error: in `/home/administrator/dev/ce':
>> configure:5011: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>
>> The same problem as using the tool from
>> http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/wince/wince-arm-gcc4.0.0-cvs-linux-crosscompiler-20050517.tar.bz2
>> .
>>
>> 2010/8/16 InfoEyes BJ <infoeyes2010 at gmail.com>
>>
>> Jean-Baptiste,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reference.
>>>
>>> We also tried the one from the page
>>> http://wiki.videolan.org/WinCECompile
>>>
>>> However, we find the following script does not work.
>>>
>>> PATH=/opt/mingw32ce/bin:$PATH \
>>> CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/wince/include -D_WIN32_WCE=0x0500" \
>>> LDFLAGS="-L/usr/wince/lib" \
>>> PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/wince/lib/pkgconfig \
>>> ./configure --host=arm-mingw32ce --enable-optimize-memory \
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>             --disable-directx --disable-dvdnav --disable-libgcrypt \
>>>             --disable-mad --disable-remoteosd --disable-sdl --disable-skins2
>>>
>>> BTW, the building environment is cygwin and we download mingw32ce for
>>> cygwin.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/8/16 Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:37:27AM +0800, InfoEyes BJ wrote :
>>>> > We are building WinCE vlc following the guide of INSTALL.wince.
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.videolan.org/WinCECompile
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jean-Baptiste Kempf
>>>> http://www.jbkempf.com/
>>>> +33 672 704 734
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>>
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