MSYS SDL-2.0 "C compiler cannot create executables" - c++

Question

I'm trying to use MSYS to create the MinGW SDL libraries from the latest SDL 2.0 Mercurial repository. (As of this posting.) I'm following this tutorial, and when I need to configure using MSYS I enter
$ ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-stdio-redirect=no
into MSYS. It sputters out the following:
configure: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in `pwd`
checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
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'm using gcc version 2.95 (According to "gcc -v"), the latest MSYS/MSYS-dtk, and the latest SDL 2.0 Mercurial sources. Does anyone know why MSYS might be giving me this error, or has anybody successfully built MinGW binaries from the current SDL 2.0 sources?
EDIT: Here's the config.log file generated by ./config:
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. Invocation command line was
$ ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-stdio-redirect=no
## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##
hostname = NFLODUDE
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 1.0.10(0.46/3/2)
uname -s = MINGW32_NT-6.1
uname -v = 2004-03-15 07:17
/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown
/bin/arch = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown
PATH: .
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /mingw/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /c/Python25/
PATH: /c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft DirectX SDK (August 2007)/Utilities/Bin/x86
PATH: /c/Perl/site/bin
PATH: /c/Perl/bin
PATH: /c/Windows/system32
PATH: /c/Windows
PATH: /c/Windows/System32/Wbem
PATH: /c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/
PATH: /c/Program Files/Dell/Dell Wireless WLAN Card
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/OpenLibraries/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files/Trend Micro/AMSP
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.5/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft ASP.NET/ASP.NET Web Pages/v1.0/
PATH: /c/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.5/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/100/Tools/Binn/
PATH: /c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/100/Tools/Binn/
PATH: /c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/100/DTS/Binn/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin
PATH: /c/perl_op/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/gtk2/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/mlt/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/OpenLibraries/bin
PATH: /c/Windows/SysWOW64
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Live/Shared
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/GtkSharp/2.12/bin
PATH: .
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/QuickTime/QTSystem/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Google/google_appengine
PATH: /c/Free Pascal Compiler/2.4.4/bin/i386-Win32
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Heroku
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/git/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/git/cmd
PATH: /c/PHP/
PATH: /c/PHP/ext
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/bin
PATH: /c/Users/Owner/Documents/Code Projects/Java Projects/LWJGL/lwjgl-2.8.3/native/windows
PATH: /c/Program Files/TortoiseGit/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files/TortoiseHg/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0A/Bin
PATH: /c/Ruby193/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/g95/bin
PATH: /c/MinGW/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Nmap
PATH: /c/GNUstep/bin
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##
configure:2098: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in `pwd`
configure:2127: checking build system type
configure:2145: result: i686-pc-mingw32
configure:2167: checking host system type
configure:2182: result: i686-pc-mingw32
configure:2252: checking for gcc
configure:2268: found /c/Free Pascal Compiler/2.4.4/bin/i386-Win32/gcc
configure:2279: result: gcc
configure:2517: checking for C compiler version
configure:2524: gcc --version >&5
2.95
configure:2527: $? = 0
configure:2534: gcc -v >&5
Using builtin specs.
gcc version 2.95 19990728 (release)
configure:2537: $? = 0
configure:2544: gcc -V >&5
gcc.exe: argument to `-V' is missing
configure:2547: $? = 1
configure:2570: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2597: gcc conftest.c >&5
Usage: cpp [switches] input output
Switches:
-include <file> Include the contents of <file> before other files
-imacros <file> Accept definition of marcos in <file>
-iprefix <path> Specify <path> as a prefix for next two options
-iwithprefix <dir> Add <dir> to the end of the system include paths
-iwithprefixbefore <dir> Add <dir> to the end of the main include paths
-isystem <dir> Add <dir> to the start of the system include paths
-idirafter <dir> Add <dir> to the end of the system include paths
-I <dir> Add <dir> to the end of the main include paths
-nostdinc Do not search the system include directories
-nostdinc++ Do not search the system include directories for C++
-o <file> Put output into <file>
-pedantic Issue all warnings demanded by strict ANSI C
-traditional Follow K&R pre-processor behaviour
-trigraphs Support ANSI C trigraphs
-lang-c Assume that the input sources are in C
-lang-c89 Assume that the input is C89; deprecated
-lang-c++ Assume that the input sources are in C++
-lang-objc Assume that the input sources are in ObjectiveC
-lang-objc++ Assume that the input sources are in ObjectiveC++
-lang-asm Assume that the input sources are in assembler
-lang-chill Assume that the input sources are in Chill
-std=<std name> Specify the conformance standard; one of:
gnu89, gnu9x, c89, c9x, iso9899:1990,
iso9899:199409, iso9899:199x
-+ Allow parsing of C++ style features
-w Inhibit warning messages
-Wtrigraphs Warn if trigraphs are encountered
-Wno-trigraphs Do not warn about trigraphs
-Wcomment{s} Warn if one comment starts inside another
-Wno-comment{s} Do not warn about comments
-Wtraditional Warn if a macro argument is/would be turned into
a string if -traditional is specified
-Wno-traditional Do not warn about stringification
-Wundef Warn if an undefined macro is used by #if
-Wno-undef Do not warn about testing undefined macros
-Wimport Warn about the use of the #import directive
-Wno-import Do not warn about the use of #import
-Werror Treat all warnings as errors
-Wno-error Do not treat warnings as errors
-Wall Enable all preprocessor warnings
-M Generate make dependencies
-MM As -M, but ignore system header files
-MD As -M, but put output in a .d file
-MMD As -MD, but ignore system header files
-MG Treat missing header file as generated files
-g Include #define and #undef directives in the output
-D<macro> Define a <macro> with string '1' as its value
-D<macro>=<val> Define a <macro> with <val> as its value
-A<question> (<answer>) Assert the <answer> to <question>
-U<macro> Undefine <macro>
-u or -undef Do not predefine any macros
-v Display the version number
-H Print the name of header files as they are used
-C Do not discard comments
-dM Display a list of macro definitions active at end
-dD Preserve macro definitions in output
-dN As -dD except that only the names are preserved
-dI Include #include directives in the output
-ifoutput Describe skipped code blocks in output
-P Do not generate #line directives
-$ Do not include '$' in identifiers
-remap Remap file names when including files.
-h or --help Display this information
cpp: Too many arguments
configure:2600: $? = 1
configure:2638: result:
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:2645: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##
ac_cv_build=i686-pc-mingw32
ac_cv_env_CCC_set=
ac_cv_env_CCC_value=
ac_cv_env_CC_set=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_CXXCPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CXXCPP_value=
ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CXX_set=
ac_cv_env_CXX_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=
ac_cv_env_XMKMF_set=
ac_cv_env_XMKMF_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_host=i686-pc-mingw32
ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_CC=gcc
## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##
ALLOCA=''
ALSA_CFLAGS=''
ALSA_LIBS=''
AR=''
ARTSCONFIG=''
AS=''
BUILD_CFLAGS=''
BUILD_LDFLAGS=''
CC='gcc'
CFLAGS=''
CPP=''
CPPFLAGS=''
CXX=''
CXXCPP=''
CXXFLAGS=''
DEFS=''
DIRECTFBCONFIG=''
DLLTOOL=''
DSYMUTIL=''
DUMPBIN=''
ECHO_C=''
ECHO_N='-n'
ECHO_T=''
EGREP=''
ENABLE_SHARED_FALSE=''
ENABLE_SHARED_TRUE=''
ENABLE_STATIC_FALSE=''
ENABLE_STATIC_TRUE=''
ESD_CFLAGS=''
ESD_CONFIG=''
ESD_LIBS=''
EXEEXT=''
EXTRA_CFLAGS=''
EXTRA_LDFLAGS=''
FGREP=''
GREP=''
INCLUDE=''
INSTALL_DATA=''
INSTALL_PROGRAM=''
INSTALL_SCRIPT=''
LD=''
LDFLAGS=''
LIBOBJS=''
LIBS=''
LIBTOOL=''
LIPO=''
LN_S=''
LTLIBOBJS=''
LT_AGE=''
LT_CURRENT=''
LT_RELEASE=''
LT_REVISION=''
NM=''
NMEDIT=''
OBJDUMP=''
OBJECTS=''
OBJEXT=''
OTOOL64=''
OTOOL=''
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
PACKAGE_NAME=''
PACKAGE_STRING=''
PACKAGE_TARNAME=''
PACKAGE_VERSION=''
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
PKG_CONFIG=''
POW_LIB=''
RANLIB=''
SDLMAIN_OBJECTS=''
SDL_BINARY_AGE='0'
SDL_CFLAGS=''
SDL_INTERFACE_AGE='0'
SDL_LIBS=''
SDL_MAJOR_VERSION='2'
SDL_MICRO_VERSION='0'
SDL_MINOR_VERSION='0'
SDL_RLD_FLAGS=''
SDL_STATIC_LIBS=''
SDL_VERSION='2.0.0'
SED=''
SET_MAKE=''
SHELL='/bin/sh'
STRIP=''
VERSION_OBJECTS=''
WINDRES=''
XMKMF=''
X_CFLAGS=''
X_EXTRA_LIBS=''
X_LIBS=''
X_PRE_LIBS=''
ac_aux_dir='build-scripts'
ac_ct_CC='gcc'
ac_ct_CXX=''
ac_ct_DUMPBIN=''
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build='i686-pc-mingw32'
build_alias=''
build_cpu='i686'
build_os='mingw32'
build_vendor='pc'
datadir='${datarootdir}'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}'
dvidir='${docdir}'
exec_prefix='NONE'
host='i686-pc-mingw32'
host_alias=''
host_cpu='i686'
host_os='mingw32'
host_vendor='pc'
htmldir='${docdir}'
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='${datarootdir}/info'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
lt_ECHO='echo'
mandir='${datarootdir}/man'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
pdfdir='${docdir}'
prefix='/mingw'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
psdir='${docdir}'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target_alias=''
## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##
#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
configure: exit 77
I really don't know what to make of config.log, though...

Answer 1

Short answer: your gcc is not ready, needs some dependencies.
Long answer, troubleshooting guide:
Create a simple C file, like this:
main() {}
Try to run:
gcc simple.c
You should get the same message, about creating executables. Now make a verbose gcc call, adding -v switch. You should now know what is the command it cannot run. Maybe it is as? Maybe you need binutils? Maybe you need some library.