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Re: Recently installed cygwin - cannot install gcc
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: David Ziants <dziants at 013 dot net>
- Cc: Cygwin-L <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:43:50 -0600
- Subject: Re: Recently installed cygwin - cannot install gcc
- References: <482995D4.2020003@013.net>
David Ziants wrote:
Explicitly tried to
install/reinstall the "develop" package where gcc is supposed to be
installable from.
While setup.exe will let you install the entire Devel category, that's
probably not what you actually did, nor do you generally want to.
There's a whole lot of stuff in that category, most of which you'll
probably never need.
What you probably want is to open that section up, then click where it
says "Skip" next to every individual package you want that isn't
currently installed. Each time you click, it changes to a different
mode for the package; you want to see Keep, a version number, or
Reinstall, not Skip or Default. setup.exe handles dependencies
automatically, so a minimal install is to click on gcc-core. You'll
probably need other things as well, such as make, a text editor,
additional compilers, etc.
Having to go back through setup.exe several times is normal, by the way.
I rarely get a fresh Cygwin setup right the first time. As you begin
to use it, you'll discover something lacking, and usually it's available
in Cygwin but not installed by default.
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