Following my previous post advisign that the gcc 32 compiler was exiting immediately (return code 1) without doing anything, I have now established what is happening. The behaviour exhibited is contrary to that exhibited by gcc 64 bit, which works fine.
When entering the cygwin console and typing: cd d:/c the screen displays /cydrive/d/c gcc sourcefile.c does nothing and 'echo $?' displays 1 However cd /usr/src gcc sourcefile.c works ok So, it would appear that, for some reason, the 32bit compiler falls over when accessing files outside of the main c:\cygwin hierarchy ! -- Tim Clarke, IT Manager Seacon Group Ltd Registered in England, No. 4221248 Registered Office: Tower Wharf, Northfleet, Kent, DA11 9BD -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple