cygwin - Issues with creating a symbolic link (coding Arduino in C)

Question

I am trying to programme an arduino microcontroller board using C, and I have downloaded the relevant software onto my laptop. When I use cygwin on my windows laptop and try to create a symbolic link using the command: ln -s /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Arduino/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avr-gcc.exe it gives me this when I press enter: ln: failed to create symbolic link './avr-gcc.exe': File exists eventhough I have the avr-gcc.exe saved into cygwin itself.

Answer 1

ln -s takes two arguments, the destination of the symlink and the source. You only give one argument.