[Mono-list] Problems building mono 0.6 under Cygwin

[Mads Pultz]

Hi!

I'm trying to build Mono under Cygwin/Windows 2000 but the configure script
fails (see the output below). libffi is apparently the problem. Any
suggestion to what to do?

Regards, Mads

creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe
checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... .exe
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... none
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) supports shared
lib
raries... yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe option to reload object
files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking if package supports dlls... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
creating libtool
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating mono/Makefile
creating mono/metadata/Makefile
creating mono/dis/Makefile
creating mono/cil/Makefile
creating mono/interpreter/Makefile
creating mono/tests/Makefile
sed: can't read ./mono/tests/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
creating mono/wrapper/Makefile
creating runtime/Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating config.h
configuring in libffi
running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache .././config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
checking for executable suffix... configure: error: installation or
configuratio
n problem: compiler cannot create executables.
configure: error: ./configure failed for libffi