I am trying to run Cygwin, and I am running into some problems. I tried to compile a program that works both on Windows with mingw and on a Unix system, but when I go to compile it through Cygwin:
gcc threads.c -o threads
I get the error: this application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way
And that's it... any ideas what I am forgetting or screwing up? I haven't touched this stuff in about 5 years so I am beyond rusty; thanks!
The error message means the compiler crashed while trying to build your program.
Most likely this means your Cygwin installation is corrupt or happens to include a broken version of gcc. Try updating to the current version of Cygwin. This is doubly the case given that Cygwin 1.7 and the first stable releases of GCC 4 are both recent happenings. If you're still on Cygwin 1.5 or GCC 3.x, I think there's an excellent chance that upgrading will fix your symptom.