X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_LR,TW_RW,TW_WX,TW_XR X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FD43F56.6030700@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:31:50 +0200 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120604 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gcc not running properly?? References: <33987996 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <33987996.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 6/10/2012 6:53 AM, scotty85 wrote: > > I have recently installed cgywin on my windows 7 32-bit machine. > > when i run the cgywin terminal i am able to show the version with the > command gcc --version however when i try and do this in command prompt > nothing is displayed. i have set the path correctly so i don't know why > only gcc is not working as all the others in the cygwin\bin folder do. > > here is an attached screenshot of the problem if it is unclear. > http://old.nabble.com/file/p33987996/gcc.jpg gcc.jpg > > any help would be much appreciated. > on mintty you are clearly using a bash shell, while the command prompt is not a cygwin shell at all. Command prompt can not follow cygwin simlink $ which gcc /usr/bin/gcc $ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco None 21 Nov 13 2011 /usr/bin/gcc -> /etc/alternatives/gcc $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/gcc lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco None 18 Mar 31 15:31 /etc/alternatives/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-4.exe Use mintty and bash. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple