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From: lazer1 <lazer1 AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk>
To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 20:08:48 -0000
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Subject: Re: How download gcc + its source?
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On 01-May-04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:04PM -0000, lazer1 wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I installed Cygwin via http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,
>>
>>by downloading first and then installing with everything set to default,
>>
>>when I double click the Cygwin icon on Windows XP 
>>I get the Cygwin shell,
>>
>>I cannot find gcc, I recursively searched the whole of the cygwin directory 
>>C:\cygwin and there is no file whose name has gcc as a substring,

>The cygwin web site says this:

>  Note also that, by default, setup.exe does not install everything.  Only
>  the base cygwin distribution is installed by default.  When running
>  setup.exe, clicking on categories and packages in the package
>  installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is
>  installed or updated.  

>For instance, clicking on the "Default" field
>  next to the "All" category will provide you with the opportunity to
>  install every Cygwin package. 

This was the sentence I was looking at, I understood it to mean that "Default"
for "All" would install everything,

I will try again and set "install" for "All",

> Be advised that this will download and
>  install hundreds of megabytes to your computer.  The best plan is
>  probably to click on individual categories and install either entire
>  categories or packages from the categories themselves.

>That would suggest that 1) you did not install gcc and 2) you need to run
>setup.exe again to retrieve the packages that you need.

>See also http://cygwin.com/problems.html .

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