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"Dave Hansen" <dhansen@btree.com> writes: > > Next, of course, is gcc. Your FAQ discusses egcs, but I had read > previously in Cygnus' egcs site that Cygwin was not supported, so I > downloaded gcc 2.8.1. I followed your suggestions (e.g., removing > the objc directory and linking the newlib and libgloss directories) > and ran configure, which seemed to work, but "make cross" (or "make > all install" for that matter) tries to run autoconf, which I don't > seem to have. > > Any suggestions here? Or should I just download egcs and build it as > you suggest in your docs? I'm willing to do that, but I hate to > think my multi-megabyte download of gcc was wasted... > I would strongly suggest using egcs-1.1.x (preferably x = 2) and Cygwin b20.1 for a stable environment. egcs has tons of fixes, some of which are critical fixes when hosting (and some when targetting) on win32, that are not in gcc-2.8.1. Cygwin b20.1 is at least an order of magnitude more stable than the precursors. If you're dealing with W9x, you should get the 1999-01-16 snapshot available from Cygnus site at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/site/. However, as you note, egcs-1.1.x does not officially support win32. The good news is that patches available from my site make it a pretty good win32 compiler, and it's being used by lots of people. See ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/egcs-1.1.2/patches/ for more info. Regards, Mumit _______________________________________________ New CrossGCC FAQ: http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC _______________________________________________ To remove yourself from the crossgcc list, send mail to crossgcc-request@cygnus.com with the text 'unsubscribe' (without the quotes) in the body of the message.