Shan, I imagine you did not install all of Cygwin. With my full and current install, your program, copied directly from your post, compiles without complaint and executes exactly as expected. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 02:57 2001年09月05日, m_shanmugasundaram.cgmaersk@maerskdata.dk wrote: >Hi , >>I downloaded and installed the cygwin today. When i tried to compile the >simple hello.c program the following error occured. please help me. >>The program is: >>#include<stdio.h> >int main() >{ > printf("Hello world\n"); > return 0; >} >>The error reported is: >>$gcc -o hello hello.c >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: >cannot find -luser32 >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >>Cheers >Shan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/