Cross-Compiling XZ-5.X.X on Windows

Question

I am tring to cross compile xz-5.0.4 on Windows. I have folowed the instruction in the INSTALL-Windows.txt but I receive an error

Initializing Automake:
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/c/devel/xz-5.0.4':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

Can someone help me find the problem ?

Answer 1

You have problems with your gcc: configure can not pass simple test with compiling void file.

Install GCC as described in your document, next make sure, that its binary is called gcc (usually windows distrs prefer something like gcc-4.4), if no -- make symlink. Also make sure it is in PATH.

Try command gcc test.c from command line where test.c is file with contents like int main(void) { return 0; } -- this is how configure usually checks compiler. If it doesn't work, make it work, next configure again.