Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001007182917.00b72b78@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 18:35:12 -0400 To: Neil Zanella , Cygwin Mailing List From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Five newbie questions In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:45 PM 10/7/2000, Neil Zanella wrote: >Hello, > >I am new to Win2K and CygWin (although not to Unix). >I just installed CygWin 1.1.4 on Windows 2000. >I have five questions. > >(i) >Why do I get the following error when trying to compile a simple >ANSI C "Hello World" program? > >$ gcc hello.c >gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory$ Install binutils. >(ii) I have the Borland 5.5 free compiler installed as well as the LCC >free compiler. OK, don't mix-and-match!;-) >(iii) What flags should I use to compile a Win32 source file? That's a loaded question. It really depends on what you want to get as a result and what the file needs. >(iv) A bit off topic: What is nmake? Do I need it or can I use plain make? nmake is MS's version of make. For GCC, use make. >(v) A friend of mine wants to install CygWin but has spaces in the Windows > Logon user name (Win2K). Is this still a problem with CygWin 1.1.4 and > is there a sys admin tool in Win2K that can be used to change the logon > name to one without spaces? DJ just made a change to the installer that's supposed to handle this. Still, I'd recommend changing the login name to not contain spaces. It will be less headaches overall. I expect other applications using the login name will be confused by spaces as well... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com