Re: [Mingw-users] gcc doesn't run for me

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

MSYS is not MinGW, and the "mingw directory" referred to below is NOT your
MSYS directory. If you extracted GCC into the MSYS root (/) directory then
it will not work so you'll have to remove it. The documentation I'm talking
about is the MSYS README file that is displayed when you install MSYS and is
installed in the /doc/msys directory (it's also mentioned in the WELCOME
file but less explicitly). You do need binutils as well (in the same tree as
GCC) but a lack of binutils will give a different error message.

Luke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Tarlton" <st_...@ya...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] gcc doesn't run for me


> This is an excerpt from the instructions:
>
> >The binaries are archived as
> >gcc-3.2.3-200300504-1.tar.gz. Extract
> >the files. maintaining the directory structure, into
> >your root mingw
> >directory
>
> I put the tar.gz file in '/' directory of mingw then
> unzipped then untar'd it.  These are basically the
> only instructions that I have found to install it.
> Any other advice is much appreciated.
>
> Sean
>
>
> --- Luke Dunstan <cod...@ho...> wrote:
> >
> > Did you unzip GCC into the MSYS directory? If so,
> > you should remove them both and try again in
> > separate directories, as the documentation states.
> >
> > Luke