From: sarnold AT coyote DOT rain DOT org (Stephen L Arnold) Subject: Re: gcc installation with NT 3 Dec 1998 03:50:50 -0800 Message-ID: <199812021843.KAA22301.cygnus.gnu-win32@coyote.rain.org> References: <000901be1d00$82c69350$cac8c8c8 AT mindspring> Reply-To: sarnold AT earthling DOT net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: "Fred Marshall" , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 30 Nov 98, Fred Marshall had questions about gcc installation with NT: > I started with the idea of installing g77. I understand that it > requires B19 - which is what I have. I also understand that it > requires gcc. OK. I also understand that gcc requires djgpp to > install under Windows. > > I'm running Win NT 4 SP3 and want to install g77. I don't understand; AFAIK, djgpp and cygwin are completely different setups (djgpp is a 32bit DOS port of gcc, while cygwin is a unix-like dll and all the associated gnu tools, gcc, etc. If you have the cygwin b19, you just need the coolview .dll and the egcs update (the latter has gcc, g++, and g77 support). There are a few library bugs/features in the cygwin stuff that don't quite conform to either the C standard or the normal GNU extensions. Unless you need the cygwin .dll (ie, for unix compatibility), you'd be better off using the mingw32 stuff; at least the stdlib stuff works right. Check out the following stuff (the gcc 2.8.1 works for me): http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html Hope this helps, Steve ************************************************************* Steve Arnold sarnold AT earthling DOT net http://www.rain.org/~sarnold This message composed of 100% recycled electrons. You should also recycle yourself. Become an organ donor (8-)@ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".