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Re: Install&GCC use problem


On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:10:31PM -0500, John L. Bowman wrote:
>Andrew Markebo wrote:
>> You doubleclicked on the cygwin icon, got a black window with a prompt
>> like $? And you tried to run gcc from there..
>
>No.  In my step 3 below I doubleclicked on the cygwin icon, and cygwin
>opened the black window.  (This is the window I subsequently ran
>cygcheck from).  However, to try to run gcc I opened a separate new DOS
>command window, and tried to compile from the new DOS window.  I did
>this because in the 'expectations for Windows programmers' section of
>the cygwin website (user's guide?) it seemed to say this would work.

Cygwin doesn't set the PATH unless you are running from bash.  It sounds
like you need to set the PATH.

cgf

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