Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20020924135413.53734.qmail@web40603.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 06:54:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Barry Buchbinder Subject: RE: gcc doesn't work but seemed to install fine... To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: bettycheung_02 AT hotmail DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii download.com just points to setup.exe on the cygwin home page so what she got was up to date but incomplete. Betty didn't see the instructions for how to install so didn't install gcc and man, as neither gcc nor man are part of the base install. Betty should see the the installation instructions on the cygwin home page http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ and then re-run steup. And get in the habit of using the cygwin home page and not download.com when dealing with cygwin. - Barry On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Betty Cheung wrote: > Hi, all, > > I installed cygwin 1.3.1 whole package on my PC with windows XP from > download.com as instructed and started cygwin from my desktop. But when I > compile a c program: gcc try.c -o try.exe, I got "bash: gcc: command not > found", then I typed 'man gcc' I got "bash: man: command not found". > Could anybody tell me how to use gcc with cygwin? any demo for that? > > Many Thanks! > > Betty Betty, It looks like your Cygwin was not set up properly (missing or incorrect $PATH, etc). This could have something to do with the fact that you didn't get it from an official Cygwin mirror... Also, 1.3.1 is OLD, OLD, OLD! Here's what you can do: Rename your current cygwin directory (to "cygwin.old", for example). Go to http://cygwin.com/ , click on "Install Cygwin now", and download setup.exe. Follow the instructions to upgrade your Cygwin to 1.3.12-4 (which is the latest for now; 1.3.13 may be released soon). You may choose any mirror. Also install gcc-2.95.3-5 (or you may try your luck with 3.2-1), and any other packages you think you need (e.g., man, less, etc). Move any files you created from your old cygwin tree to the new one. Then try your compilation again. Igor P.S. You may also remove your old cygwin tree at that point -- you won't need it anymore. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.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/