I downloaded and installed the Rust and Cargo night hours on my machine and used Cargo to create a new binary project:
Cifram@Valyria ~ $ cargo new test --bin
Then I try to start this virgin project, again with a new, unsullied installation of Rust and Cargo and get the following:
Cifram@Valyria ~/test $ cargo run --verbose Compiling test v0.0.1 (file:///C:/cygwin64/home/Cifram/test) Running `rustc C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\src\main.rs --crate-name test --crate-type bin -g --out-dir C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target --dep-info C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\.fingerprint\test-51757ad0485ed143\dep-bin-test -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\deps` error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1 note: gcc '-m64' '-L' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib' '-o' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\test.exe' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\test.o' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-lmorestack' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-fno-lto' '-fno-use-linker-plugin' '-Wl,--gc-sections' '-static-libgcc' '-Wl,--enable-long-section-names' '-Wl,--nxcompat' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libsync-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\librustrt-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libunicode-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libcore-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\deps' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\.rust' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bstatic' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bdynamic' '-lws2_32' '-lcompiler-rt' note: C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\test.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status error: aborting due to previous error Could not compile `test`. Caused by: Process didn't exit successfully: `rustc C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\src\main.rs --crate-name test --crate-type bin -g --out-dir C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target --dep-info C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\.fingerprint\test-51757ad0485ed143\dep-bin-test -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\deps` (status=101)
I'm not sure why rustc calls gcc since I realized that it was built on top of LLVM. I have gcc installed via MinGW, so my first thought was that it was possible that installing gcc was in the way.
Cifram@Valyria ~ $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/lto-wrapper.exe Target: mingw32 Configured with: ../gcc-4.8.1/configure --prefix=/mingw --host=mingw32 --build=mingw32 --without-pic --enable-shared --enable-static --with-gnu-ld --enable-lto --enable-libssp --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --disable-win32-registry --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gmp=/usr/src/pkg/gmp-5.1.2-1-mingw32-src/bld --with-mpc=/usr/src/pkg/mpc-1.0.1-1-mingw32-src/bld --with-mpfr= --with-system-zlib --with-gnu-as --enable-decimal-float=yes --enable-libgomp --enable-threads --with-libiconv-prefix=/mingw32 --with-libintl-prefix=/mingw --disable-bootstrap LDFLAGS=-s CFLAGS=-D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T Thread model: win32 gcc version 4.8.1 (GCC)
So this is an updated version of gcc. But still, perhaps this is not what rustc expects. So I deleted C: \ MinGW \ bin from my path and tried again and got:
Cifram@Valyria ~/test $ cargo run --verbose Compiling test v0.0.1 (file:///C:/cygwin64/home/Cifram/test) Running `rustc C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\src\main.rs --crate-name test --crate-type bin -g --out-dir C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target --dep-info C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\.fingerprint\test-51757ad0485ed143\dep-bin-test -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\deps` error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1 note: gcc '-m64' '-L' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib' '-o' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\test.exe' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\test.o' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-lmorestack' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-fno-lto' '-fno-use-linker-plugin' '-Wl,--gc-sections' '-static-libgcc' '-Wl,--enable-long-section-names' '-Wl,--nxcompat' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libsync-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\librustrt-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libunicode-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libcore-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\deps' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\.rust' '-L' 'C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bstatic' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bdynamic' '-lws2_32' '-lcompiler-rt' note: ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots error: aborting due to previous error Could not compile `test`. Caused by: Process didn't exit successfully: `rustc C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\src\main.rs --crate-name test --crate-type bin -g --out-dir C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target --dep-info C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\.fingerprint\test-51757ad0485ed143\dep-bin-test -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target -LC:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\deps` (status=101)
Well, this is a slightly different mistake, but not really better. The same gcc command does not work, but before the error:
C:\cygwin64\home\Cifram\test\target\test.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
And now this:
ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots
I do not find any of these terribly significant. I tried to run "rustc main.rs" directly. The same errors were received (except for "src \ main.o" instead of "target \ test.o"). Tried to do all this from the windows command line instead of cygwin. The same mistakes. So it doesn’t look like Cargo or cygwin is to blame. I also tried downloading the latest “stable” version of Rust (0.12.0) and still got the same errors. I searched for these errors and searched for them. So my ideas are running out.
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