Re: How download gcc + its source?

[lazer1 <lazer1 at blueyonder dot co dot uk>]

On 02-May-04, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Hallo lazer1,

>Am Samstag, 1. Mai 2004 um 18:49 schriebst du:

>> Hello,

>> I installed Cygwin via http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,

>> by downloading first and then installing with everything set to default,

>> when I double click the Cygwin icon on Windows XP 
>> I get the Cygwin shell,

>> I cannot find gcc, I recursively searched the whole of the cygwin directory
>> C:\cygwin and there is no file whose name has gcc as a substring,

>> I also did 

>> ls /bin
>> ls /usr/bin

>> and found lots of other things, but no gcc,

>> on the site itself, I found eg a directory listing of gcc-3.3.1 
>> and gcc-3.3.1-src,

>> but no download button for either! 

>> I dont want to see a directory listing but want to 
>> download the entirety of both, preferably as an archive!

>> The faq doesnt seem to mention how to download gcc,

>> I dont know how to use cvs either,

>> So how would I download + install eg the gcc-3.3.1 binary and its source?

>> I hope I dont have to use cvs, but if I have to what commands shall I
>> type from the cygwin shell?

>> gcc-3.3.1 interests me as this specific version is available on another
>> platform so I can synchronize the gcc version across platforms,

>To install one or more additional packages, just fire up setup.exe and
>select them in the chooser view.

>GCC is not available as single tarball, you'll need at least the
>following package from the `devel' category:
>gcc

>This will pull also the gcc-mingw-core package which includes the
>headers, libraries and symlinks to make use of the -mno-cygwin flag to
>create cygwin independant binaries.

programs that will run from outside the cygwin shell?

how would I do hello world say hello.c,

would it be:

gcc -mno-cygwin -c hello.c -o hello.o
gcc -mno-cygwin -o hello hello.o

?

(doing it in 2 stages in case I want to link several files),


>If you want to compile C++, Ada, ObjC, Pascal, Fortran or Java sources
>you'll need one or more of the gcc-xyz packages, please see the short
>description displayed in the setup.exe chooser.

for the moment just C,

>Setup.exe also selects automatically the according MinGW packages if
>one of the gcc-xyz packages is selected.  There are also some other
>dependencies (i.e. ash, binutils, w32api, mingw-runtime, libintl2)
>selected automatically which will pull other packages as well.

>For cygwin GCC sources install the package gcc-core.

>You may also need the `make' package and some more packages form the
>devel category like `bison' & `flex', e.g. if you want to build GCC
>from source.

if I want to build GCC from the source that appeared from 
setup.exe, will I have to apply the patch that appears next to the 
source directory?
or is that preapplied?
or does the patch happen automatically?



>Gerrit
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