Re: -lluser32 missing

[Jeff C <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

Christoph Karl Walter Grein wrote:
> I've installed Gnat 3.4.2 on Windows (98|XP). When I try to link a hello world program, I get the following.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

Actually, you installed GCC 3.4.2 that includes GNAT Ada support. GNAT 
version numbers are distinct from gcc versions and unless you are using 
a compiler version derived directly from an AdaCore release, the version 
number not in the same version number stream.

Seems like a trivial complaint (that I make here from time to time) but 
seeing that there is now a GCC 4.0 and there was a (not widely 
distributed) GNAT 4.0 and they are completely different beasts (GNAT 4.0 
was based on GCC 2.8 I think) this can cause confusion.


> 
>>gnatmake hello
> 
> gcc -c hello.adb
> gnatbind -x hello.ali
> gnatlink hello.ali
> C:\Compiler\GCC\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -luser32
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gnatlink: cannot call C:\Compiler\GCC\bin\gcc.exe
> gnatmake: *** link failed.

Seems like some sort of installation problem. This is an mingw gcc 
release. Have you tried this from an Msys shell. Mingw installs 
generally do not do things like setup all of the path/environment 
variables for using the tools from a cmd.exe shell.

Try it first from an msys shell. Also might be worth asking this on the 
mingw mailing lists.

Do you have a libuser32.a file somewhere in the tree where you install 
this stuff.. Perhaps you just downloaded and installed a portion of the 
required mingw items?