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: <20020924140808.83744.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:08:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Barry Buchbinder Subject: RE: gcc doesn't work but seemed to install fine... To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I didn't know that about download.com either. I was interested in seeing if they supplied source so I looked and that was what I found. - Barry --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Oh, didn't know that about download.com. What threw > me off was the > subject -- one can read it as "gcc installed fine", > so I assumed she > actually explicitly installed gcc... My bad. > Igor > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Barry Buchbinder wrote: > > > 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/