From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27054 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2008 15:38:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 27045 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2008 15:38:55 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (HELO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com) (71.74.56.125) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:38:17 +0000 Received: from Dell8250Den ([71.67.163.96]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with SMTP id <20080808153814.XBXQ14903.hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com@Dell8250Den>; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:38:14 +0000 Message-ID: <010a01c8f96c$c5806790$1f12fea9@Dell8250Den> From: "Phil Richcreek" To: Cc: "Phil Richcreek" Subject: HOWTO Compile with gcc Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:12:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 I need to compile and execute a C program that belongs to a another party. The author has made all of the source code available to me. My environment is Windows/XP SP2. The material the author made available includes several .c files, several .h files, and a makefile. I will be using a library that is created by one of the C programs in a perl program and also executing another (provided) C program that will excercise the same library. I have installed MinGW. I have little experience with C and even less with gcc. I've looked through some of the extensive documentation for gcc but am still uncertain how to get started. Can someone give me some guidance? TIA, Phil