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From: "Hugh McMaster" <dasjournal AT gmail DOT com>
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Hi Glenn,

Make sure that you select GCC from the Development area of the setup
programme.  That should provide you with what you need.

Hope this helps,

Hugh


On 17/11/06, Smith, Glenn wrote:
>I have downloaded the complete Cygwin environment from several of
your mirror sites onto my Windows XP system, but I never seem to get
the Gnu C compiler itself. This manifests itself in two ways: 1)
although /bin ends up full of executables, gcc.exe is never among
them; and 2) no matter what directory I put my "test .c" file in and
make my current directory, the command to compile:
>
> > gcc test.c -o test.exe
> always produces this error message:
> bash: gcc: command not found

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