From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22227 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2011 16:32:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 22212 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Aug 2011 16:32:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gw0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-gw0-f47.google.com) (74.125.83.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:31:47 +0000 Received: by gwb11 with SMTP id 11so5025992gwb.20 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:31:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.173.129 with SMTP id v1mr26233903yhl.25.1314635505368; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.110.6 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GCC From: Philip Herron To: David Brown Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-08/txt/msg00346.txt.bz2 On 29 August 2011 10:20, David Brown wrote: > On 29/08/2011 10:44, emil johansson wrote: >> >> Hello! >> I have some problems building GCC. I get more than 500 errors. Why? >> I'm using Microsoft Windows Vista. >> Help needed :) >> > > You clearly don't have much experience at this sort of thing, or you would > know that for anyone to help you with building gcc here, you would need to > give lots more information (what version of gcc? =A0What compiler/version= are > you using to build it? =A0What configuration? =A0What error messages? etc= ., > etc.). > > Unless you have some overwhelming reason for building gcc on Vista, I sim= ply > would not bother. =A0Download a pre-built binary and use that. =A0If you = are > looking for a native gcc, use . =A0If you are looki= ng > for a cross-platform gcc of some sort, there are pre-built binaries for m= ost > targets - ask google, or give more information when asking here. > You can also try cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ i had some good experience with it where i used to work. If you gave us more details on your "errors" i am sure we can help but if your on windows using mingw or cygwin are your best bet so give them a while they each have plenty of documentation and user bases to help you i am sure. --Phil