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Subject: Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999
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Thanks for the quick response Dave.

I understand about the primary use of Cygwin.  I also like to use it to test
code through the GNU compiler in addition to the Visual C one. Since I also
use Eclipse for Java, it's convenient to use it for C++ as well for this
type of testing.

I'll look to see if the Eclipse CDT folks have an answer.....

Best,
Eileen


Dave Korn-6 wrote:
> 
> enovack wrote:
> 
>> It's just a pain since this used to work on my old laptop, which had a
>> previous version of cygwin installed.
> 
>   Sorry about that.  Primarily the goal of cygwin is to provide a
> linux-like
> environment and linux-like behaviour, and from that point of view the
> ability
> to switch the system default compiler was something that was a deficiency
> while it was missing.  We don't go out of our way to break other usages
> such
> as an external win32 app trying to launch a cygwin app from a non-cygwin
> environment, but we can't always make everything compatible with win32 at
> the
> expense of linux compatability.  I am surprised you're having problems
> though,
> as with /bin in the windows PATH and invoking the particular compiler by
> name
> it should all "just work".  (Yeah... famous last words!)
> 
>   It might also be possible to use "cygstart" as a wrapper to launch the
> plain
> "gcc" shortcut and even take advantage of the "alternatives" wrapper from
> within your applications, although I can't promise.
> 
>> Best,
>> Eileen
>> 
>> 
>> Dave Korn-6 wrote:
> 
>   Hey!  I just got .so versioned! :-)
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> 
> 
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