Instalation of gcc on windows 2000?

[Josh Perlmutter]

i'm not sure, but would the ms dos found on windows 2k, since it is ms dos 
and not the ms dos simulator used in me and xp, would it be able to handle 
the bash script?


>From: Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci <fwyzard@inwind.it>
>To: Afbaxt@aol.com,help-gcc@gnu.org
>CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
>Subject: Re: Instalation of gcc on windows 2000?
>Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 02:02:29 +0100
>
>At 01.06 08/02/2002 (GMT -0500), Afbaxt@aol.com wrote:
>>How do you install gcc onto windows 2000? I tried to run from the start 
>>menu
>>the following:
>>
>>C:\GNU\gcc-3.0.3\configure GCC_objdir
>
>IIRC, configure is not invoked this way. The right way is:
>   cd GCC_objdir
>   C:\GNU\gcc-3.0.3\configure [configure options]
>
>>I got back the message that the command "configure" was not recognized?
>
>configure is a bash script (actually, sh).
>So, you need to run it from something that can recognize this (eg., from
>it's first line: #! /bin/sh). I don't know if Win 2K can be made smart
>enough for this.
>
>>I was hopping to run gcc directly on windows, rather than running it on
>>cygwin.
>
>Maybe you can configure/bootstrap it from cygwin, then run it from Windows.
>I've never tried it, but it might work :-)
>(the biggest problem being - will gcc be able to find it's libraries and
>executables? maybe setting PATH accordingly...)
>
>>Thanks --A
>
>I'm sorry this might not be the answer you were seeking :-(
>HTH
>fwyzard
>




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Josh Perlmutter
NOC "intern"
Brandeis University


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