Re: gcc 3.3 installing problems under MS Windows XP

[LLeweLLyn Reese <llewelly at lifesupport dot shutdown dot com>]

"Christian M. Senet \(V2T\)" <senet@v2t.de> writes:

> Hey there,
> 
> I try to install/configure/make the gcc 3.3 package under MS Windows XP.
> 
> I configure under cygwin and compile gcc with MinGW and use the gnu
> make.

If you configure under cygwin, you must compile with cygwin tools, and
    not with mingw tools.

The mingw people are working on providing an official mingw
    gcc 3.3 binary. It may be simpler to wait for that, depending on
    your needs. I believe there is also an official cygwin gcc 3.3
    binary in preparation.

The mingw mailinglists, which may be a better forum for getting
    answers to your problems are here:
    http://www.mingw.org/lists.shtml

The cygwin mailinglists: http://cygwin.com/lists.html

> my downloaded source is in 'D:/gcc-3.3' target should be in 'C:/gcc-3.3'
> 
> From a bunch of error messages I went down to just a few of them.
> 
> Here is the remaning error list while performing configure:
> 
> 1) "This configuration is not supported in the following 
>    directories:
>    target-libffi target-boehm-gc target-zlib target-libjava
>    (Any other should still work fine.)"


This means either (a) you have explicitly disabled these parts of gcc
    via configure arguments, or (b) these parts of gcc are disabled by
    default for your platform, most likely because they are known not
    to work.

This is not a problem unless you need those things (in this case,
    unless you need java.) The above should not prevent C or C++ from
    working. 

> 
> 2) message from sed or cat for some files like the following:
>    "cat: can't read d:/gcc-3.3/libiberty//gcc-3.3/libiberty/Makefile.in 
>    No such file or directory"           ^^
>                                         ^^
>    -------------------------------------^^
>    There is this doubleed "//" which seem to
>    produce the problem; may some some source pathes are not set correctly.
>    
>    What has to be done to set them correctly?
>    
> 3) "eval: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
>     Configure in cygdrive/c//gcc-3.3/zlib failed, exiting"
[snip]

I don't know how to fix these problems, sorry.