how do i install on windows 98?

how do i install on windows 98?

[rurik leffanta]

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..
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Re: how do i install on windows 98?

[Sisyphus]

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

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