Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <200007250633.CAA25467@melbourne-city-street.MIT.EDU> X-Sender: trotts AT hesiod X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:33:14 -0400 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Issac Trotts Subject: my newly deceased gcc installation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, I just tried to install gcc 2.95.2 in Cygwin 1.1.2. I think I misunderstood the installation instructions at ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/gcc-2.95.2/INSTALL (they didn't quite make sense for my Cygwin installation since it doesn't have a /Cygnus directory) because after I unpacked the files binutils-2.9.4-cygb20.tar.gz gcc-2.95.2-docs-info.tar.gz gcc-2.95.2-cygb20.tar.gz gcc-2.95.2-mingw-extra.tar.gz gcc-2.95.2-dev-ss.tar.gz gcc-2.95.2-x86-win32-patches.tar.gz gcc-2.95.2-docs-html.tar.gz w32api-bin-1999-12-21.tar.gz in the / directory, I started getting lots of incorrect error messages from gcc. For instance, when I try to compile a simple hello world program // hello.cc #include int main() { cout<<"hi"<