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On 2009-06-04 16:05Z, Dave Korn wrote: > enovack wrote: [using gcc in eclipse; problem not solved by invoking 'gcc-3.exe'] >> It's just a pain since this used to work on my old laptop, which had a >> previous version of cygwin installed. > > Sorry about that. Primarily the goal of cygwin is to provide a linux-like > environment and linux-like behaviour, and from that point of view the ability > to switch the system default compiler was something that was a deficiency > while it was missing. We don't go out of our way to break other usages such > as an external win32 app trying to launch a cygwin app from a non-cygwin > environment, but we can't always make everything compatible with win32 at the > expense of linux compatability. Is there any reason not to recommend MinGW in this case, since the OP's later followup says she just wants another "compiler in addition to the Visual C one"? -- 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/
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