GCC 4.3.2 Install into Cygwin

John Love-Jensen eljay@adobe.com
Tue May 6 19:46:00 GMT 2008


Hi Jim,

For Cygwin, you really should use the Cygwin SETUP.EXE to pull down the
pre-built GCC for Cygwin.

Why?  Because there are several technical issues with GCC that the Cygwin
folks are working hard to resolve.

>From Brian Dessent's previous posting, some of the key issues:
+ lack of shared target libraries
+ broken exception handling in various way

If you are building a cross-compiler, then that's different, and you should
be okay.

> Exactly which directory should I be at in order to issue the "make install"?

Did you follow the instructions for GCC?

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/

In particular, did you run "configure" from a separate build directory, not
in the GCC source code directory (nor any subdirectory thereof)?

Did you pull down and incorporate the needed components for GCC into the GCC
source directory?

HTH,
--Eljay



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