Greetings, tl...@twcny.rr.com! > I uninstalled and deleted the entire cygwin64 directory and reinstalled > using the defaults. The download time was much shorter but I still can't > compile anything with the C compiler even with no anti-virus running.
Base cygwin installation is a POSIX userspace and essential Cygwin tools, it does not include any compilers at all, quite predictable. > I'm surprised the default installation doesn't include make or dir.h. Why it should? > Adding make was no problem but it took me a while to find a package that > contains dir.h. I think we need a "build-essential" metapackage. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:56:17 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple