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On 4/14/05, Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> wrote:
> Hi Stefus,
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> NOTE: your question is off-topic for this forum. This isn't a "How do I get Cygwin to work" forum. But I'll try to answer your question.
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> I have Cygwin installed, and GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special) works just fine.
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> Have you installed all the Cygwin components (modules) that GCC relies upon, such as binutils, the GNU assembler, et al?
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> I found it easiest to install EVERYTHING using the Cygwin installer. By default, Cygwin installer installs a (what I call) a bare-bones non-developer configuration.
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> At the top most item of the install hierarchy tree, change that to "install", and it will change everything underneath it to "install" (not including source; you'd have to do those manually). I presume you have the hard drive space. It will take quite a while.
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> If not "everything", then at least make sure you install all the items in the dev subtree.
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> HTH,
> --Eljay
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