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 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:02:51 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Install&GCC use problem Message-ID: <20010314200251.E29093@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AAFE6C7.EBB0F406@alum.mit.edu> <3AB00877.533FF352@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3AB00877.533FF352@alum.mit.edu>; from John_L_Bowman@alum.mit.edu on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:10:31PM -0500 On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:10:31PM -0500, John L. Bowman wrote: >Andrew Markebo wrote: >> You doubleclicked on the cygwin icon, got a black window with a prompt >> like $? And you tried to run gcc from there.. > >No. In my step 3 below I doubleclicked on the cygwin icon, and cygwin >opened the black window. (This is the window I subsequently ran >cygcheck from). However, to try to run gcc I opened a separate new DOS >command window, and tried to compile from the new DOS window. I did >this because in the 'expectations for Windows programmers' section of >the cygwin website (user's guide?) it seemed to say this would work. Cygwin doesn't set the PATH unless you are running from bash. It sounds like you need to set the PATH. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple