Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/05/01/15:10:08
On 01-May-04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:04PM -0000, lazer1 wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I installed Cygwin via http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,
>>
>>by downloading first and then installing with everything set to default,
>>
>>when I double click the Cygwin icon on Windows XP
>>I get the Cygwin shell,
>>
>>I cannot find gcc, I recursively searched the whole of the cygwin directory
>>C:\cygwin and there is no file whose name has gcc as a substring,
>The cygwin web site says this:
> Note also that, by default, setup.exe does not install everything. Only
> the base cygwin distribution is installed by default. When running
> setup.exe, clicking on categories and packages in the package
> installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is
> installed or updated.
>For instance, clicking on the "Default" field
> next to the "All" category will provide you with the opportunity to
> install every Cygwin package.
This was the sentence I was looking at, I understood it to mean that "Default"
for "All" would install everything,
I will try again and set "install" for "All",
> Be advised that this will download and
> install hundreds of megabytes to your computer. The best plan is
> probably to click on individual categories and install either entire
> categories or packages from the categories themselves.
>That would suggest that 1) you did not install gcc and 2) you need to run
>setup.exe again to retrieve the packages that you need.
>See also http://cygwin.com/problems.html .
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