Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/05/02/01:23:46
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 08:08:48PM -0000, lazer1 wrote:
>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",
Or, you could just install gcc specifically.
cgf
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