Reini Urban wrote on 13 May 2008 18:34: > 2008/5/13 David Ziants <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Installed cygwin under Windows XP prof, and the basic environment works. >> I cannot do gcc nor can I find reference to the compiler under any of >> the bin directories. >> >> >> Have run the setup a second time (as advised by documentation) and also >> tried reinstalling from a different mirror. Explicitly tried to >> install/reinstall the "develop" package where gcc is supposed to be >> installable from. > > install gcc-core and not gcc.
If you're going to do that, you will have to manually install the C++ packages that gcc would pull in that gcc-core doesn't: "gcc-g++ gcc-mingw-g++". (Assuming you want C++, of course, but most folks do....) > gcc has an invalid tar for me also. Setup.exe version numbers involved? There have been some issues there lately to do with how we define an "empty" tarball[*], but: /artimi/software/firmware $ wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/cygwin/release/gcc/gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2 --18:50:43-- http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/cygwin/release/gcc/gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2 => `gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.heanet.ie... 193.1.193.64 Connecting to ftp.heanet.ie|193.1.193.64|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 46 [application/x-tar] 100%[====================================>] 46 --.--K/s 18:50:43 (485.02 KB/s) - `gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2' saved [46/46] @_______. . ( /"\ ||--||(___) '" '"'---' /artimi/software/firmware $ tar tvfj gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2 && echo OK OK @_______. . ( /"\ ||--||(___) '" '"'---' /artimi/software/firmware $ cheers, DaveK [*] - See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-05/msg00055.html and subsequent thread for info. -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
