On 2017-06-25 00:31, Wouter van Doorn wrote: > There isn't one! The default rule does exactly that (although despite > the -o it creates a hello.exe, but that's fine.
It doesn't seem to be fine - is that not what you're complaining about? Given your PATH, we don't know which make might be running, which rules it might be using, and which programs might be producing your hello.exe which doesn't run, running a simple "gcc -o hello hello.c" may give you some certainty and possibly success. In general, your Cygwin profile should prefix your Windows user PATH with e.g. PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:%PATH% - append /usr/sbin;/sbin; before %PATH% to also run admin utilities. Also your Windows user PATH should prefix your Windows system Path with utility paths you installed and use logged on e.g. PATH -> C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin;C:\Cygwin\bin;%ProgramFiles%\<utility>;%ProgramFiles%\<other>\bin;...%Path% Your Windows system Path should be prefixed with utility paths you may want to run logged out or under other ids e.g. Path -> ... -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple