Problem with MinGW installation instructions

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The installation instructions for MinGW on the wiki specify only installing
the g++ compiler but this is not enough and results in the following error
when configuring coin:

$ ./configure LDFLAGS="-mno-cygwin" CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin" CXXFLAGS="-mno-cygwin"
 --disable-msvc --without-mesa --without-x- --prefix=/usr/local
checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking target system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking for distcheck mode... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I fixed the error by going back and reinstalling mingw with everything
except the Ada and Java compilers.  I'm not sure exactly which packages are
necessary, but I am positive that more than just the g++ compiler is required

Original issue reported on code.google.com by victorjf...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2008 at 4:52

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Original comment by amaiamut...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2009 at 10:26

• Changed state: Fixed