X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Chuck Chopp Subject: Update GCC in Cygwin? Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:34:51 -0400 Lines: 36 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Are there any issues associated with updating applications that were included as part of the Cygwin installation? I'm just beginning to get familiar with Cygwin, and I have some C++ code that is primarily being built using Visual C/C++, but I also need to test it for portability for use with GCC on Linux and Mac OS X. Initially, I was thinking of just using GCC under Cygwin to do the basic compile to make sure that I get a clean compilation pass before I set up actual target systems to do a full build on. What I noticed, though, is that the GCC version that's included with Cygwin is older than what will be used on Linux & OS X, so I was interested in whether or not there's problems with taking an updated distro kit for GCC on a Linux x86 platform and installing it within Cygwin. Is this something that should be do-able w/o problems? Or, do I need a GCC build that's made explicitly for use in Cygwin? TIA, Chuck -- Chuck Chopp ChuckChopp (at) rtfmcsi (dot) com http://www.rtfmcsi.com RTFM Consulting Services Inc. 864 801 2795 voice & voicemail 103 Autumn Hill Road 864 801 2774 fax Greer, SC 29651 "Racing to save lives" The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Team in Training http://www.active.com/donate/tntsc/tntscCChopp Do not send me unsolicited commercial email. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/