Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <000d01c27fe9$9ba9f6f0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "jblazi" , References: <200210300011.08499.jblazi@gmx.de> <005501c27fa4$86136fa0$78d96f83@pomello> <200210300820.31545.jblazi@gmx.de> Subject: Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:54:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 jblazi wrote: > Thank you for your help. No problem. >> The -I option shouldn't be needed at all. > > I saw that there is no such thing in the Cygwin examples. I suspect > that I should set some variables manually. But which ones? None. >> *Backslash paths* !?!?! From *Cygwin* gcc? Could you have some other >> gcc on your Windows system? > > I do not understand what you mean. It plays absolutely no rôle > whether I use \cygwin... or /cygwin... The error messages you posted showed backslashes in the error messages. Cygwin gcc prints forward-slash paths in its error messages. >> Run the command "gcc -v" and post the output. > > Here is the output: > > d:\cygwin\home\Administrator\c-programme>gcc -v > gcc -v > Using builtin specs. > gcc version 2.95 19990728 (release) Right - This version of gcc is either not from Cygwin at all, or is truly ancient. You should probably remove your Cygwin install and install the latest version. >> So / = d:\cygwin, but you don't want the -I option anyway. > > If I do not specify -I then the include path is not found and I get > an error message. This indicates that your installation is broken, not that you are supposed to supply a command line option. Max. PS: Please keep replies on cygwin@cygwin.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/