new to gcc

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 26 March 2014 14:45, albert.kasenter wrote:
> Hi I am a retired Medical Physicist and would like to know more about
> programming
>
> I downloaded a snapshot of  gcc 4.8 and now have it untarred and
> uncompressed in a folder under windows 7
> Where can I find information on how to configure and use it.

On Windows it is much easier to download pre-built binaries rather
than configure it yourself. The GCC project does not provide any
binaries itself, but there is a list of sources for Windows builds at
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#Windows