I tried JUST what you did. It worked.
I've a windows only user and only recently installed cygwin. I created my hello.c, opened a CMD Prompt, typed gcc hello.c -o hello.exe and got no errors. Typed hello and got "Hello, world!". As expected. I installed Cygwin using the setup.exe from Cygwin's site and MAY have added the cygwin's bin directory to my PATH (if it wasn't done by the installation - can't remember). That's it! Easy. On 14/07/06, Benn Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Warning - old time unix user, unsure windows user newbie question: how do I use cygwin from a dos window, as seen in the example below from the documentation. Console Mode Applications Use gcc to compile, just like under UNIX. Refer to the GCC User's Guide for information on standard usage and options. Here's a simple example: Example 4.1. Building Hello World with GCC C:\> gcc hello.c -o hello.exe C:\> hello.exe Hello, World C:\> . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/
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