Solved: Cannot find -lgcc_s on Cygwin 4.3.4

For the past week or so, I've been trying to build the Giza++ language modeling tools on my Windows machines, and have been having quite a bit of trouble. Permissions errors on Windows 7, weird "missing separator" error messages that were completely unhelpful (it means your text editor has replaced all tabs with spaces), and so on. Compile and build errors that have kept me up late into the night on several occasions lately, but which I was ultimately able to untangle with a little applied Google-Fu.

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