Thanks for your response.
I did reinstall yet again, and went to a third mirror. A lot more opened
up than on the initial attempts, and so found what I needed.
Are all the mirrors equal?
David
Warren Young wrote:
David Ziants wrote:
Explicitly tried to install/reinstall the "develop" package where gcc
is supposed to be installable from.
While setup.exe will let you install the entire Devel category, that's
probably not what you actually did, nor do you generally want to.
There's a whole lot of stuff in that category, most of which you'll
probably never need.
What you probably want is to open that section up, then click where it
says "Skip" next to every individual package you want that isn't
currently installed. Each time you click, it changes to a different
mode for the package; you want to see Keep, a version number, or
Reinstall, not Skip or Default. setup.exe handles dependencies
automatically, so a minimal install is to click on gcc-core. You'll
probably need other things as well, such as make, a text editor,
additional compilers, etc.
Having to go back through setup.exe several times is normal, by the
way. I rarely get a fresh Cygwin setup right the first time. As you
begin to use it, you'll discover something lacking, and usually it's
available in Cygwin but not installed by default.
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