The Railroad Crossing wrote: > I've just installed cygwin. Now I want to add a C compiler. I am > famialiar with gcc from my Linux experience at work, but can't compile > rthe gcc source because ./configure says I have no suitable cc > compiler. It is correct. That's why I downloaded the gcc source in the > first place. Doh! What I really need is a gcc binary for cygwin, but > all I can find on http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html is a link to > the cygwin website, which I've already checked out. I am going in > circles and really getting nowhere. Can someone please get me off of > this ride?! Cygwin has a gcc binary package (and subpackages for each language component), so just re-run setup.exe and select those pacakges. > I know some of you will say that my troubles are suitable punishment for > buying a Windows PC in the first place, instead of getting a > Linux-loaded PC. Well... I live and learn. Right now I want to learn > how to get a compiled version of a C compiler on my Cygwin. Can you help? Unless you have special needs there is no need to compile your own GCC. Brian
