Re: Newbie with GCC

[Al Dubovick <zyquipA at skyweb dot net>]

Mumit Khan wrote:

> In article <3830B43D.5E94EAB8@skyweb.net>,
> Al Dubovick  <zyquip@skyweb.net> wrote:
> >
> >Have a Celeron 466 with 128 MB SDRAM. Can I expect the GCC 2.95 to
> >work smoothly with C++ code on this NT4(SP5) system? Do you think
> >novices should avoid GCC? If so, are there other free or low cost
> >alternatives?
>
> See http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ for 3 different
> gcc-2.95.2 ports to various win32 targets.
>
>   - Cygwin -- Uses Cygnus' POSIX API (Unix'y)
>     http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
>   - Mingw -- Use Microsoft runtime, no POSIX (native Win32)
>   - UWIN -- Uses AT&T UWIN POSIX API (Unix'y)
>     http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
>
> There is short synopsis of these terms (Cygwin, Mingw, UWIN) on my
> web site to help you decide.
>
> For either Cygwin or UWIN, you need install the base system from
> respective sites. For Mingw, all you need are the compiler tools
> from my site (self extracting package).
>
> All distributions come with C, C++, F77, ObjC compilers and runtime
> headers/libraries. Cygwin and UWIN also come with GNU Java compiler.
>
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/ for information on GCC compilers.
>
> For DOS target, see http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/.
>
> Regards,
> Mumit

Hi Mumit. Thanks for responding so thoroughly. Per the descriptions on your
Web page, I downloaded the Cygwin files, as I discovered Cygwin has the
additional capability for Java.

Does the Cygwin file  gcc-2.95.2-cygb20.tar.gz  contain GCC 2.95.2 integrated
in it, or must I also separately download GCC 2.95.2 from the GCC Home Page
http://egcs.cygnus.com?

I must also purchase the Cygwin 1.0 CD too?