windows vista compiling problems

[muska54]

Hi all , I am using VDrift for a college project but am having trouble compiling in windows vista.

i am following the steps in the wiki for compiling and have working installations of mingw, MSYS, python, and scons.
when i run ./configure , this happens..

Bren@BRENDAN /c/newVDrift/bullet-2.64
$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

*this is the log file:
file C:\newVDrift\SConstruct,line 331:
Configure(confdir = .sconf_temp)

*SConstruct file:
#--------------------------#
# Check for Libs & Headers #
#--------------------------#
(line 331) conf = Configure(env)

for header in check_headers:
if not conf.CheckCXXHeader(header):
print 'You do not have the %s headers installed. Exiting.' % header
Exit(1)

i have set up minGW and msys correctly i believe. when installing msys, it wanted me to declare where minGW was installed and it picked it up fine.
any help would be great thank you.
Brendan.



sony vaio laptop fe41s
windows vista
1.66ghz core 2 duo
2gb ram
nvidia 7600 video card