On 3/3/2012 3:10 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
On 3 March 2012 19:54, Philip "Pete" Cohen wrote:
I am overwhelmed by the documentation. I want to install a C, C++ compiler
system. I have downloaded and upacked the file below.
gcc-4.6.3.tar.bz2
That's the source code for the compiler, so you need to build it yourself.
My environment is Microsoft windows seven
Try installing MinGW instead, it includes GCC.
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
As the gcc site http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html tells you, the
cygwin project is an excellent way to get pre-built gcc (including the
32- and 64-bit mingw versions, which cygwin calls cross compilers).
--
Tim Prince
