title: GLIB: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables in windows
body: <p>Configure Command is </p>
  
  <p>Go to Glib Directory -> run this command</p>
  
  <p><code>./configure --prefix="Installation directory"</code></p>
  
  <p>While configure the Glib package in windows, It shows the following results.</p>
  
  <pre><code>checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
  checking whether build environment is sane... yes
  checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
  checking for gawk... gawk
  checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
  checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
  checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
  checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
  checking for the BeOS... no
  checking for Win32... yes
  checking for Mac OS X Carbon support... checking for style of include used by make... GNU
  checking for gcc... gcc
  checking for C compiler default output file name... 
  configure: error: in `/e/Projects/AVG/Tasks/SVGTask/RSVG/src/glib':
  configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
  See `config.log' for more details.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using minGW to compile the configure file from GLib package.I am using <code>mSys version 1.0 and Gcc 4.6.1 version</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Both Cygwin and msys are installed in my system.</p>
  
  <p>Even I tried with <code>cygwin</code> but the results are same.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>Log Details:</p>
  
  <p>Provided the Error details contains in the log</p>
  
  <pre><code>  gcc version 4.6.1 (GCC) 
    configure:3363: $? = 0
    configure:3370: gcc -V &gt;&amp;5
    gcc.exe: error: unrecognized option '-V'
    gcc.exe: fatal error: no input files
    compilation terminated.
    configure:3374: $? = 1
    configure:3397: checking for C compiler default output file name
    configure:3419: gcc  E:\Projects\AVG\Tasks\SVGTask\RSVG\include        E:\Projects\AVG\Tasks\SVGTask\RSVG\lib conftest.c  &gt;&amp;5
    d:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find  E:\Projects\AVG\Tasks\SVGTask\RSVG\include: Permission denied
    d:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find E:\Projects\AVG\Tasks\SVGTask\RSVG\lib: Permission denied
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    configure:3423: $? = 1
    configure:3461: result: 
    configure: failed program was:
    /* confdefs.h.  */
    #define PACKAGE_NAME "glib"
    #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "glib"
    #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.20.5"
    #define PACKAGE_STRING "glib 2.20.5"
    #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=glib"
    #define GLIB_MAJOR_VERSION 2
    #define GLIB_MINOR_VERSION 20
    #define GLIB_MICRO_VERSION 5
    #define GLIB_INTERFACE_AGE 5
    #define GLIB_BINARY_AGE 2005
    /* end confdefs.h.  */
  
    int   main ()
    {
  
        ;
     return 0;
    }
    configure:3467: error: in `/e/Projects/AVG/Tasks/SVGTask/RSVG/src/glib':
    configure:3470: error: C compiler cannot create executables
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How to solve this issue?</p>