# Error Building 1.6.2.2 on Cygwin 3 messages from 2009-04-09 to 2009-04-13. Participants: Tim Visher, Tay Ray Chuan. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18812 ## Tim Visher, 2009-04-09 19:10 Subject: Error Building 1.6.2.2 on Cygwin Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c115fd3c0904091210u398ea4bag62eac3a6deaffa5f%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello Everyone, Trying to build 1.6.2.2 and I'm getting the following error. LINK git-fast-import.exe cc: unrecognized option `-pthread' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [git-fast-import.exe] Error 1 Thoughts? -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ``` ## Tay Ray Chuan, 2009-04-10 03:15 Subject: Re: Error Building 1.6.2.2 on Cygwin Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/be6fef0d0904092015o10457ca7u844fe868aae4de6b%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Tim Visher wrote: > cannot find -liconv you need to get the libiconv package using the cygwin installer. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan ``` ## Tim Visher, 2009-04-13 12:16 Subject: Re: Error Building 1.6.2.2 on Cygwin Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c115fd3c0904130516y3bef1ff3x44d99e7b1dd72a45%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Tim Visher wrote: >> cannot find -liconv > > you need to get the libiconv package using the cygwin installer. Thanks, Ray. That fixed it. I had libiconv2 but I guess it's not backwards compatible. -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ```