Meson Build System -- Cross Compiling - build-system

Question

This is my first time using the Meson build system and I'm doing a cross compilation of a simple project; it should be straight forward but I'm getting the following error and I hope you can provide some help with it.
meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unable to detect linker for compiler ".\tools\gcc_compiler\bin\ppc-freevle-eabi-gcc -Wl,--version -c -mcpu=e200z4 -mvle -meabi -msdata=none -mregnames -O2 -gdwarf-2 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=16 -fno-gcse -std=gnu99"
This is what my cross_file.build looks like:
[constants]
compiler_path = '.\tools\gcc_compiler\bin\'
arch = 'ppc-freevle-eabi'
[binaries]
c = compiler_path + arch + '-gcc'
cpp = compiler_path + arch + '-cpp'
ld = compiler_path + arch + '-ld'
ar = compiler_path + arch + '-ar'
as = compiler_path + arch + '-as'
size = compiler_path + arch + '-size'
objdump = compiler_path + arch + '-objdump'
objcopy = compiler_path + arch + '-objcopy'
strip = compiler_path + arch + '-strip'
gdb = compiler_path + arch + '-gdb'
[built-in options]
c_args = [
'-c',
'-mcpu=e200z4',
'-mvle',
'-meabi',
'-msdata=none',
'-mregnames',
'-O2',
'-gdwarf-2',
'-fomit-frame-pointer',
'-falign-functions=16',
'-fno-gcse',
'-std=gnu99'
]
c_link_args = [
'-mcpu=e200z4',
'-mvle',
'-meabi',
'-msdata=none',
'-mregnames',
'-O2',
'-gdwarf-2',
'-fomit-frame-pointer',
'-falign-functions=16',
'-fno-gcse',
'-std=gnu99',
'-ffunction-sections',
'-fdata-sections',
'-fno-common',
'-nostartfiles',
'-Wl,-Map=build/out.map',
'--cref,--no-warn-mismatch,--library-path=,--gc-sections,-lm,-lc,-z,max-page-size=16384,--script=application.ld -o build/out.elf'
]
[host_machine]
system = 'windows'
cpu_family = 'x86'
cpu = 'i686'
endian = 'little'
If I execute the same command in the command line, I don't get any error, but for some reason meson does not like, any idea?
Thanks!