On 01-May-04, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:04PM -0000, lazer1 wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I installed Cygwin via http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe, >> >>by downloading first and then installing with everything set to default, >> >>when I double click the Cygwin icon on Windows XP >>I get the Cygwin shell, >> >>I cannot find gcc, I recursively searched the whole of the cygwin directory >>C:\cygwin and there is no file whose name has gcc as a substring,
>The cygwin web site says this: > Note also that, by default, setup.exe does not install everything. Only > the base cygwin distribution is installed by default. When running > setup.exe, clicking on categories and packages in the package > installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is > installed or updated. >For instance, clicking on the "Default" field > next to the "All" category will provide you with the opportunity to > install every Cygwin package. This was the sentence I was looking at, I understood it to mean that "Default" for "All" would install everything, I will try again and set "install" for "All", > Be advised that this will download and > install hundreds of megabytes to your computer. The best plan is > probably to click on individual categories and install either entire > categories or packages from the categories themselves. >That would suggest that 1) you did not install gcc and 2) you need to run >setup.exe again to retrieve the packages that you need. >See also http://cygwin.com/problems.html . >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
