I downloaded the GCC 4.7.1 source and unpacked it, inside the gcc source directory I placed the folders mpc,mpfr and gmp containing the latest sources of the libraries. As I am told, GCC should automatically find,compile and statically link against them. I also created a folder called 'gcc-obj' inside the gcc source folder and from withing it I called the following configure command: ../configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-libgcj --enable-libgomp --with-dwarf2 --disable-win32-registry --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-concept-checks --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --prefix=/c/gcc-obj --with-gmp=gmp --with-mpfr=mpfr --with-mpc=mpc I included the --with-mpc,mpfr and gmp switches to be on the safe side. After the configure finishes, I call 'make -j4' to build faster. Around 10-15 minutes later I get the following error checking for i686-pc-mingw32-gcc... (cached) /c/gcc/gcc-obj/./gcc/xgcc -B/c/gcc/ gcc-obj/./gcc/ -L/c/gcc/gcc-obj/i686-pc-mingw32/winsup/mingw -L/c/gcc/gcc-obj/i6 86-pc-mingw32/winsup/w32api/lib -isystem /c/gcc/winsup/mingw/include -isystem /c /gcc/winsup/w32api/include -B/mingw/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ -B/mingw/i686-pc-mingw3 2/lib/ -isystem /mingw/i686-pc-mingw32/include -isystem /mingw/i686-pc-mingw32/s ys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/c/gcc/gcc-obj/i686 -pc-mingw32/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. make[3]: *** [config.status] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/gcc/gcc-obj/i686-pc-mingw32/libgcc' make[2]: *** [all-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/gcc/gcc-obj' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/gcc/gcc-obj' make: *** [all] Error 2 Here is the config.log from the folder, http://pastebin.com/mnfnkuiZ Any help would be appreciated.