GCC/Windows/Newbie

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My advice, as the eternal newbie is this:

(1) Get Cygwin and install everything.  Note that this includes the gcc
C,C++ and FORTRAN compilers working right out of the box.  No build.
No problems.  Ready to go.

(2) The version of gcc that comes with Cygwin is 2.95.3.  This is an older
release, but formany people who use gcc regularly, it is what they use for
their production work.

(3) If for some reason you really want to build the 3.1 version of gcc,
I can give you a recipe to follow (I know, because I can follow it,
and I am the ultimate dumb user test) once you have Cygwin installed.

If you really want to stay in the DOS/Windows world, then you can do that
through djgpp.  I have that on this machine as well.  You can get pre-built
binaries of 3.0x and 3.1 for it easily and install them just as easy.

Wayne