On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:27, Sheryl Canter wrote: > I've been trying all day to compile GCC for Windows, and I just can't do it. > I'm using the MinGW compiler as a boot compiler and cygwin for the > environment. I added c:\mingw\bin to the path, but I keep getting this error > message: You said you're using cygwin? Then you need to translate your paths to use '/' rather than '\'. Since cygwin is unix-like, '\x' is treated as a way of escaping 'x'. To include a '\' literally, you need '\\'. Philip.