C compiler cannot create executables - Cygwin/MiniGW

gcc cygwin mingw portaudio pyaudio
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I'm trying to compile Pyaudio, (a Python module) from source, since I'm using Windows, and only 32-bit binaries are available - I need 64. Following these instructions I downloaded Cygwin, and installed every component, to be safe. Installing Portaudio, another module, is required first.

When I run CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin" LDFLAGS="-mno-cygwin" ./configure, I get the error configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables. See 'config.log' for more details. config.log has an additional line below that message: gcc: The -mno-cygwin flag has been removed; use a mingw-targeted cross-compiler.

This leads me to believe that perhaps Cygwin is using the wrong compiler; the instructions are for using MinGw with Cygwin, but I never specified minigw in the process. I also wonder if there's something in the PyAudio build files that needs to be changed for 64-bit. I know nothing about C, compiling, Cygwin or MinGW, and am new to programming in general. Any ideas? Any other information I can provide?

Answer

Yaakov picture Yaakov · Jun 20, 2013

Current versions of Cygwin gcc do not support -mno-cygwin anymore because it never really worked correctly. Instead, you should use a proper cross-compiler, which is provided by the mingw64-i686-gcc packages, then run ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.

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