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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>
To: "jblazi" <jblazi@gmx.de>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d01c27fe9$9ba9f6f0$78d96f83@pomello> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210300820.31545.jblazi@gmx.de>

jblazi <jblazi@gmx.de> wrote:

> Thank you for your help.

No problem.

>> The -I option shouldn't be needed at all.
>
> I saw that there is no such thing in the Cygwin examples. I suspect
> that I should set some variables manually. But which ones?

None.

>> *Backslash paths* !?!?! From *Cygwin* gcc? Could you have some other
>> gcc on your Windows system?
>
> I do not understand what you mean. It plays absolutely no rôle
> whether I use \cygwin... or /cygwin...

The error messages you posted showed backslashes in the error messages.
Cygwin gcc prints forward-slash paths in its error messages.

>> Run the command "gcc -v" and post the output.
>
> Here is the output:
>
> d:\cygwin\home\Administrator\c-programme>gcc -v
> gcc -v
> Using builtin specs.
> gcc version 2.95 19990728 (release)

Right - This version of gcc is either not from Cygwin at all, or is truly
ancient.
You should probably remove your Cygwin install and install the latest
version.

>> So / = d:\cygwin, but you don't want the -I option anyway.
>
> If I do not specify -I then the include path is not found and I get
> an error message.

This indicates that your installation is broken, not that you are supposed
to supply a command line option.

Max.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-30  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-29 15:40 Elfyn McBratney
2002-10-29 17:23 ` jblazi
2002-10-29 20:13   ` Max Bowsher
     [not found]     ` <200210300820.31545.jblazi@gmx.de>
2002-10-30  1:38       ` Max Bowsher [this message]
2002-10-30  2:59         ` jblazi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-30  3:44 Max Bowsher
2002-10-30  5:24 ` Janos Blazi
2002-10-30  6:54   ` David Starks-Browning
2002-10-29 20:47 Dockeen
2002-10-29 15:25 jblazi
2002-10-29 15:37 ` Max Bowsher

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