MinGW useage (Re: RTEMS 4.8.0 Available)

[Smith, Gene SEA]

Chris Johns wrote:
> Smith, Gene SEA wrote:
>> While trying to use the new minGW binaries I came across a problem.
>>  While doing the build (make all) it would often stop many time
>> with the pop up message:
>> 
>> "16-Bit MSDOS Subsystem NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal
>> instruction ... Close? / Ignore?"
>> 
>> This always seems to occur when this line is displayed:
>> 
>> "Checking whether arm-rtems4.8-gcc --pipe and cc understand -c and
>> -o together."
>> 
>> If I hit close or ignore the build continues but the "make all" 
>> operation eventually fails.
>> 
> 
> I have never seen this message before. A quick look around the net
> shows it to be related to running a 16bit application. Do you have
> something in your path that is 16-bit and being run ?
> 
> Sometimes virus scanning type programs can cause problems. If you
> have a problem it is worth trying with them turned off to see if the
> problems still exists.

Possibly I failed to reboot after installing the stuff. Don't see this 
error any more.