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Cygwin is spitting error messages - some help please

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nofish:
I'm quite new to developing/compiling, please be gentle...

I tried following the steps found here:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SimpleGuideToCompiling

I got stuck here with Cygwin giving me errors:
(see attached img)

Anyone has a hint what am I doing wrong ?

saratoga:
You don't have the right GCC installed. Run tools/Rockboxdev.sh then select cold fire.

Edit:  Also, the reason we don't recommend using cygwin is that it is very slow.  The dev guide suggests using our preconfigured virtualbox image, since on modern hardware VB is very fast and tends to be no more difficult (or even easier) to use then cygwin.  Something to consider unless you are very familiar with the cygwin environment. 

nofish:
Thanks for your reply.

Done what you said.
So the next steps would be building a cross compiler I guess (if I want to use Cygwin) ?
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CrossCompiler

I think that's over my head for now and I'll switch to the virtualbox image.

btw, I know that the virtualbox is recommended over Cygwin, it's just a exercise I'm doing to get familiar with it as I'll be doing a course where we'll be using Cygwin for some stuff.

saratoga:
Rockboxdev.sh builds the crosscompiler.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: nofish on September 23, 2012, 04:34:42 PM ---I got stuck here with Cygwin giving me errors:

--- End quote ---

The screenshot you attached shows a big fat warning "Your cross-compiler 3.4.6 is not the recommended version 4.5.2! This may cause your build to fail since it may be a version that isn't functional or known to not be the best choice." Is there anything unclear about this so we can improve the message? After all your build did fail and the warning told you this might happen :)

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