unable to install srecord onto cygwin

[JonY]

On 7/7/2011 00:05, cyboman wrote:
> 
> i am unfortunately not very familiar with how installations are done on *nix
> machines, even though i use one at home. however at my work we are using
> WinXP and Cygwin and i need to install 
> http://srecord.sourceforge.net/windows.html Srecord . the problem that i
> have happens when i follow the instructions given on the website for
> cygwin1.dll independent installation. i get the following messages
> 
> $ CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' CXX='g++ -mno-cygwin' ./configure
> checking whether the C++ compiler works... no
> configure: error: in  `/cygdrive/c/Documents and
> Settings/user/Junk/srecord-1.57'
> configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
> 
> can someone explain what the issue is and how to fix it? any help is
> appreciated.
> the log is attached.  http://old.nabble.com/file/p32006161/config.log
> config.log 

The log says -mno-cygwin option has been removed, use a proper cross
compiler instead.
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