Re: How download gcc + its source?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:04PM -0000, lazer1 wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I installed Cygwin via http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,
>
>by downloading first and then installing with everything set to default,
>
>when I double click the Cygwin icon on Windows XP 
>I get the Cygwin shell,
>
>I cannot find gcc, I recursively searched the whole of the cygwin directory 
>C:\cygwin and there is no file whose name has gcc as a substring,

The cygwin web site says this:

  Note also that, by default, setup.exe does not install everything.  Only
  the base cygwin distribution is installed by default.  When running
  setup.exe, clicking on categories and packages in the package
  installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is
  installed or updated.  For instance, clicking on the "Default" field
  next to the "All" category will provide you with the opportunity to
  install every Cygwin package.  Be advised that this will download and
  install hundreds of megabytes to your computer.  The best plan is
  probably to click on individual categories and install either entire
  categories or packages from the categories themselves.

That would suggest that 1) you did not install gcc and 2) you need to run
setup.exe again to retrieve the packages that you need.

See also http://cygwin.com/problems.html .

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