From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14862 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2014 14:53:02 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 14848 invoked by uid 89); 26 Mar 2014 14:53:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-la0-f52.google.com Received: from mail-la0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-la0-f52.google.com) (209.85.215.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:53:00 +0000 Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id ec20so1542045lab.25 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:52:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.42.230 with SMTP id r6mr6579380lal.32.1395845577023; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.125.202 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:52:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5332E7EC.9050603@zoominternet.net> References: <5332E7EC.9050603@zoominternet.net> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: new to gcc From: Jonathan Wakely To: "albert.kasenter" Cc: gcc-help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-03/txt/msg00100.txt.bz2 On 26 March 2014 14:45, albert.kasenter wrote: > Hi I am a retired Medical Physicist and would like to know more about > programming > > I downloaded a snapshot of gcc 4.8 and now have it untarred and > uncompressed in a folder under windows 7 > Where can I find information on how to configure and use it. On Windows it is much easier to download pre-built binaries rather than configure it yourself. The GCC project does not provide any binaries itself, but there is a list of sources for Windows builds at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#Windows