Thanks Christopher, Sorry I did take it a wee bit personally, cheers for clarifying :)
At the moment I'm out of my depth with the whole cygwin mingw stuff. I had thought that by modifying my etc/profile to pick up mingw istead of the GCC bundled in cygwin I would still be able to use the cygwin environment but just have mingw do the compiling (doing GCC --version in cygwin gives me 4.1). The ./configure script checks for the installation of certain programs, after changing the etc/profile file it suddenly doesn't find those programs I think I'm really not getting it (which included even managing to start a new thread when I wanted to reply to one, great!), I don't understand why the configure script suddenly doesn't find the programs, I'll have a really good look in the forums but suspect I'm going to go to linux to do the builds. All the best Cheers Mark -- 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/
