Re: [Caml-list] Problem during Godi bootstrap_stage2 (Windows mingw)

[Dave Benjamin <dave@ramenlabs.com>]

Alain Frisch wrote:
> Alan Schmitt wrote:
>> I had to reinstall my environment to develop OCaml applications under 
>> Windows (using mingw), and I'm having some problem during 
>> bootstrap_stage2. Here are the last few lines before the problem occurs:
> 
> I think the problem comes from a recent update in Cygwin. Now, gcc is a 
> (Cygwin) symbolic link to gcc3.exe. Cygwin applications (like bash or 
> make) are able to follow symlinks, but not native Win32 applications 
> (like ocamlrun).
> 
> A solution is to copy gcc3.exe to gcc.exe in a directory which is put in 
> front of the PATH. Same for cpp.

I ran into this problem as well. My solution was basically what you 
described:

cd /usr/bin
mv gcc.exe gcc.exe.cygwin
cp gcc-3.exe gcc.exe
mv cpp.exe cpp.exe.cygwin
cp cpp-3.exe cpp.exe

The symlinks are due to the "alternatives" system. If you look at 
Cygwin's original gcc.exe and cpp.exe, you'll see that they point to 
/etc/alternaines/gcc and cpp, which in turn point back to 
/usr/bin/gcc-3.exe and cpp-3.exe. The goal is to let you install 
multiple versions and use symlinks to set the defaults. Seems like 
overkill in this case.

Dave