a question about installing gcc3.0.3

[Rupert Wood]

Q. Wang wrote:

> >** The command 'cc -o conftest -g   conftest.c' failed.
> >** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
> Would you please give me some help on how to set set the environment 
> variable CC to a working compiler. SHould I type a command, or add
> sth to a specific file

You've downloaded a source distribution of GCC. You can't build it
without an existing compiler installed on the system - which you don't
appear to have.

Download a binary distribution of GCC for Cygwin from the Cygwin setup.
I'd be surprised if you couldn't get GCC 3.0.3 that way, but if you
can't then you can use the binary compiler to build and install the GCC
3.0.3 source.

Rup.