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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 01:23:21 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: How download gcc + its source?
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On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 08:08:48PM -0000, lazer1 wrote:
>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",

Or, you could just install gcc specifically.

cgf

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