How to fix the 'cannot find -luser32' problem

How to fix the 'cannot find -luser32' problem

[Logan Benjamin]

I searched high and low and couldn't find anything on how to fix the
error

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-6/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/
ld: cannot find -luser32

So I decided to use my brains and found the files in the directory
C:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api

So to fix it jump into windows explorer go to C:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api
and copy all the files into C:\cygwin\usr\lib and C:\cygwin\lib

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Re: How to fix the 'cannot find -luser32' problem

[Jeremy Hetzler]

At 02:34 PM 3/20/2002 +1200, you wrote:
>I searched high and low and couldn't find anything on how to fix the
>error
>
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-6/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/
>ld: cannot find -luser32
>
>So I decided to use my brains and found the files in the directory
>C:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api
>
>So to fix it jump into windows explorer go to C:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api
>and copy all the files into C:\cygwin\usr\lib and C:\cygwin\lib
>
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Others of us who can "use our brains" are somewhat leery of simple 
mass-moving library files around in a package-managed system, unless the 
developers say it won't be harmful. Maybe your solution is benign, but if 
it starts causing subtle gcc errors due to wrongly-versioned files it will 
be impossible to debug. At the very least the need to manually move files 
around is a signal that something has gone wrong in the install process.


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