Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-30 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Wednesday 30 Oct 02, Janos Blazi writes: > Now everything works. > ... > and I could compile my test.cpp. Congratulations. Now for the next lesson: don't call your test application "test" (or test.exe). You will probably have difficulty distinguishing it from the bash shell builtin "test" an

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-30 Thread Janos Blazi
Now everything works. I knew that I had never downloaded gcc before; but I downloaded Free Pascal maybe a year ago and they had this old version of gcc included. Now I get d:\cygwin\home\Administrator\c-programme>gcc -v gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/specs Configured

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-30 Thread Max Bowsher
>From: jblazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I downloaded and installed cygwin yesterday. So what exactly should I do? Where did you download Cygwin from? Because that version of gcc is definitely not from any Cygwin release in the past 3 years or so. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-30 Thread jblazi
> Right - This version of gcc is either not from Cygwin at all, or is truly > ancient. > You should probably remove your Cygwin install and install the latest > version. I downloaded and installed cygwin yesterday. So what exactly should I do? TIA, -- Janos Blazi -- Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-29 Thread Max Bowsher
jblazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your help. No problem. >> The -I option shouldn't be needed at all. > > I saw that there is no such thing in the Cygwin examples. I suspect > that I should set some variables manually. But which ones? None. >> *Backslash paths* !?!?! From *Cygw

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-29 Thread Dockeen
Max Bowsher made a very important point from a diagnostic point, he said: "Run the command "gcc -v" and post the output." This may give a tipoff if something is wrong with your gcc install. Also run: which gcc and give the results. This will tell us where gcc is coming from, and whether there

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-29 Thread Max Bowsher
jblazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 29 October 2002 22:57, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> Try this instead: >> >> gcc -I/cygwin/usr/include test.c -o test.exe >> >> or >> >> gcc test.c -o test.exe -I/cygwin/usr/include The -I option shouldn't be needed at all. > So I did and now I receive

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-29 Thread jblazi
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 22:57, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Try this instead: > > gcc -I/cygwin/usr/include test.c -o test.exe > > or > > gcc test.c -o test.exe -I/cygwin/usr/include So I did and now I receive a different set of error messages: d:\cygwin\home\Administrator\c-programme>gcc -I/cygwi

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I am trying to compile my first cygwin application. Here is my command line: gcc -I /cygwin/usr/include/sys test.c -o test.exe Try this instead: gcc -I/cygwin/usr/include test.c -o test.exe or gcc test.c -o test.exe -I/cygwin/usr/include (by the way you don't need to add the .exe on the exe

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-29 Thread Max Bowsher
jblazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to compile my first cygwin application. Here is my > command line: > > gcc -I /cygwin/usr/include/sys test.c -o test.exe > > and I get the error message > > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1.plus': No such file or > directory > > Can anybody

Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

2002-10-29 Thread jblazi
I am trying to compile my first cygwin application. Here is my command line: gcc -I /cygwin/usr/include/sys test.c -o test.exe and I get the error message gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1.plus': No such file or directory Can anybody help me? TIA, -- Janos Blazi -- Unsubscribe inf