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>> I think the answer is to install and use mingw. In any case,
>> this kind of makes sense, since most things compiler *under*
>> cygwin want the cygwin libraries ... but setup.exe needs to
>> run *before* cygwin is installed ...
>
> No, the answer is to use gcc-3.  It should be fairly obvious that setup
> can't be built with gcc-4 right now, once you attempt to try to build it.

Thank you for the quick clarification!

-- EM

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