From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9513 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2004 02:53:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9472 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2004 02:53:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.iinet.net.au) (203.59.3.41) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2004 02:53:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 14164 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2004 02:50:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iinet.net.au) (203.221.48.246) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 11 Jan 2004 02:50:58 -0000 Message-ID: <4000B92C.60104@iinet.net.au> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:53:00 -0000 From: Sisyphus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rurik leffanta CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: how do i install on windows 98? References: <003201c3d7dc$cb7c3e00$e61d4bab@default> In-Reply-To: <003201c3d7dc$cb7c3e00$e61d4bab@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00083.txt.bz2 rurik leffanta wrote: > i hate asking this question :) > > i have unpacked a tar.gz file of gcc 2.95.3, but none of the 'instructions' > on how to activate it are addressed anywhere remotely near my > understanding.. > > isn't there a step-by-step description of how to accomplish this somewhere? > as said, i'm thoroughly baffled by the links usually provided in response to > this, ie. the mingw site.. Imo, the best way to install gcc on Win98 is to go to http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml and click on the link to MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe. When you've downloaded that exe file, run it and that will install the MinGW suite of apps (including gcc) for you. Then it's just a matter of adding the location of your MinGW/bin folder to your path ... and the job's done. Run 'gcc -v' to check that all's well. Of course that will give you gcc 3.2.3. Did you really need 2.95.3 ? Cheers, Rob -- Any emails containing attachments will be deleted from my ISP's mail server before I even get to see them. If you wish to email me an attachment, please provide advance warning so that I can make the necessary arrangements.