EGCS Mingw32 native - very strange installation problems

[Mumit Khan]

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Inquisitor Nikodemus wrote:

> The EGCS version that i have is mingw32 native ,1.0.2,binary version in zip
> downloaded from ftp.franken.de . 
> 
> I unpacked it,set paths and env.variable .
> However,there is no cpp.exe in the package,so gcc.exe tells "installation
> problem,cannot exec 'cpp.exe' no such file or directory..."
> Do i have wrong - corrupted - archive ,or am I to get preprocessor myself???
> 

Doubt if the archive is corrupted since you can run gcc at the very least.
ftp.franken.de simply mirrors my own distribution, I know for a fact that 
cpp.exe does exist; however gcc relies on GCC_EXEC_PREFIX to find it, 
and you must make sure it's properly set (make sure there is the trailing 
'\' in the definition of GCC_EXEC_PREFIX, eg., c:\mingw32\lib\gcc-lib\).

Please provide more information when you post such bug reports, such as
your environment variables, path etc. Guesswork is a very unproductive
way to solving such problems.

Regards,
Mumit