On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:45:53PM +1200, drw49 wrote: > Im having some problems getting to grips with Cygwin. I have no idea how I am > meant to install GCC within it. I figured it would come with it but it doesnt > seem too. Any help valued.
When you run the setup.exe (it's worth downloading this file and keeping it somewhere sensible, called 'cygwinsetup.exe') it will download the current packages list from the net. You can select gcc from here, as well as the other tools you want. It does some dependancy checking (i.e. you select one package, it will automatically select required others), but only very strict - i.e. gcc doesn't *need* make, make doesn't *require* gcc, so if you want both, you have to select both. There's no profile-of-usage concept that I've seen. So, if you want to install more packages, re-run the setup.exe and select them. It's a bit of a bore, as the package list window doesn't resize ... but it's worth it once you're done! -jim
