cl.exe in cygwin shell - visual-studio-2010

I have a host system and a virtual machine and i am trying to setup similar environment in both.
I installed cygwin and visual studio 10 also.
I faced issues in my build and I finally managed to find one difference between my host and vm.
in my host when in cygwin shell when i enter cl I get the following:
$ cl
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.40219.01 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]
But in my vm I am getting no output.
$ cl
(VM is 32 bit and host is 64 bit)
Can someone tell me what setting I might have missed out on?

First thing you should do is to find out what cl is within the CygWin where it's not working. Execute the commands:
typeset -f cl
which cl
alias cl
and find out what it comes back with. If it's anything other than the MS compiler, that's your problem.
Beyond that, find out what the erroneous environment does when you try to run cl from a cmd window rather than CygWin bash.
Based on your comment:
On my VM, it is: $ which cl /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/bin/x86_amd64/cl
This is definitely wrong for a 32-bit VM. You are attempting to use the 64-bit AMD compiler on a system that doesn't support it.
You should change the path to use a 32-bit compiler. However, I'm not sure you have one since all of amd64, ia64, x86_amd64 and x86_ia64 seem to indicate 64-bit compilers.
The one directly under bin may be okay, you would have to test it to be certain (possibly with dumpbin which should be able to tell you the file format of the executable).

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main.rs:
fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}
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error: linking with `link.exe` failed: exit code: 1
|
= note: "link.exe" "/NOLOGO" "/NXCOMPAT" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib" "main.0.o" "/OUT:main.exe" "/OPT:REF,NOICF" "/DEBUG" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libstd-0a78323911070f99.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\librand-c279a51d66700350.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libcollections-d7bf31a4ca1ea637.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libstd_unicode-d367c3ba0db49600.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libpanic_unwind-2d4bf02140c11dcb.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libunwind-add7a84d7e82d084.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liblibc-84688accbc86d6b7.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liballoc-fe2e68b21f0bdd7a.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liballoc_system-7fc0381594c93f56.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libcore-ea9d77e7c23fe65c.rlib" "C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libcompiler_builtins-91b619d34dd1f5aa.rlib" "advapi32.lib" "ws2_32.lib" "userenv.lib" "shell32.lib" "msvcrt.lib"
= note: /usr/bin/link: extra operand '/LIBPATH:C:\\Users\\***\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib'
Try '/usr/bin/link --help' for more information.
error: aborting due to previous error
link.exe LIBPATH arg is specified twice.
What's going on?
> rustc --version
rustc 1.17.0 (56124baa9 2017-04-24)
As the rustup documentation says:
As mentioned on the Rust download page, there are two ABIs in use on Windows: the native (MSVC) ABI used by Visual Studio, and the GNU ABI used by the GCC toolchain. Which version of Rust you need depends largely on what C/C++ libraries you want to interoperate with: for interop with software produced by Visual Studio use the MSVC build of Rust; for interop with GNU software built using the MinGW/MSYS2 toolchain use the GNU build.
You have installed the MSVC toolchain. However, you are running the the compiler in a command shell where link.exe does not point to the MSVC linker, but instead to a GNU toolchain — MSVC does not call its linker /usr/bin/link or use options like --help!
You should configure your shell so the MSVC linker is foremost in the PATH or switch to the GNU ABI if that's your goal.
Compare the help output of the two:
$ link --help
Usage: link FILE1 FILE2
or: link OPTION
Call the link function to create a link named FILE2 to an existing FILE1.
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/link>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) link invocation'
> link /help
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.10.25017.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
For help on Linker, type `link /link' or `link'
For help on Library Manager, type `link /lib' or `lib'
For help on Dumper, type `link /dump' or `dumpbin'
For help on Editor, type `link /edit' or `editbin'
For help on CvtCIL, type `link /cvtcil'
I assumed Rust doesn't support VS2017 yet
It supports VS2017 just fine; as described in the 1.17 release notes, the problem is that it cannot automatically find the MSVC installation due to changes in where MSVC installs. Running the Rust compiler from inside a shell that has the proper environment works fine.

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Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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All I want is to install lfs to use in lua. If you can't figure out what I'm doing wrong but happen to know an easier way, please share. I hope I've provided enough information. Thanks.
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(in C:\MinGw\bin) "mingw32-g++.exe -c -Wall filepath\filename.cpp -o filepath\filename.exe"
When the .exe run, it give me 16-bit incompatibility error on the system.
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I'm using MinGwfrom www.mingw.com actually I don't want use IDE.
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