ld: cannot find -lgdi32

[c-yan]

What should I do?

>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

>nimrod --version
Nimrod Compiler Version 0.8.8 (2010-03-14) [Windows: i386]
Copyright (c) 2004-2010 by Andreas Rumpf

>nimrod c --app:gui hellowin.nim
Hint: used config file 'C:\Program Files\nimrod\config\nimrod.cfg' [Conf]
Hint: system [Processing]
Hint: hellowin [Processing]
Hint: windows [Processing]
"C:\Program Files\nimrod\dist\mingw\bin\gcc.exe" -c -w -I"C:\Program Files\nimrod\lib" -o nimcache\lib\system.o nimcache\lib\system.c
"C:\Program Files\nimrod\dist\mingw\bin\gcc.exe" -c -w -I"C:\Program Files\nimrod\lib" -o nimcache\nim__dat.o nimcache\nim__dat.c
"C:\Program Files\nimrod\dist\mingw\bin\gcc.exe" -c -w -I"C:\Program Files\nimrod\lib" -o nimcache\lib\windows\windows.o nimcache\lib\windows\windows.c
"C:\Program Files\nimrod\dist\mingw\bin\gcc.exe" -c -w -I"C:\Program Files\nimrod\lib" -o nimcache\hellowin.o nimcache\hellowin.c
"C:\Program Files\nimrod\dist\mingw\bin\gcc.exe" -mwindows -o hellowin.exe nimcache\hellowin.o nimcache\lib\windows\windows.o nimcache\nim__dat.o nimcache\lib\system.o
ld: cannot find -lgdi32
Error: execution of an external program failed

[Andreas Rumpf (rumpf-a)]

The shipped GCC lacks gdi32.lib, because it has been stripped down for the Nimrod distribution. Please copy the attached file to $nimrod\dist\mingw\lib and see if this fixes the bug.

[c-yan (nekomaho)]

copy libgdi32.a to $nimrod\dist\mingw\lib and get the following error message:
ld: cannot find -lcomdlg32

[Andreas Rumpf (rumpf-a)]

Sorry.

[Andreas Rumpf (rumpf-a)]

In case things are still missing, please download the whole Mingw GCC package. You can find it here:
http://force7.de/nimrod/download/mingw.zip

[c-yan (nekomaho)]

copy libcomdlg32.a to $nimrod\dist\mingw\lib and get no error. thanx. (don't copy libcomctl32.a yet)
the future version of nimrod will be shipped with these files?
if not so, i want the link from http://force7.de/nimrod/download.html to http://force7.de/nimrod/download/mingw.zip.
thanx.

[Andreas Rumpf (rumpf-a)]

Yes, the next version will include these files. But the website will contain a link to Mingw anyway.

[c-yan (nekomaho)]

i see. thanx.