[Mingw-users] Where are the "includes"?

[Burnell G. W. <bg...@mi...>]

I wanted GCC on my Win2K machine, so I downloaded and installed MSYS,
which immediately enabled a UNIX-like window with a familiar behavior.
(I am not - repeat NOT - a UNIX expert.)  It felt very good to me, by
the way.

I then downloaded
	* gcc-core-3.3.1-20030804.tar.gz
	* gcc-g++  <ditto>
	* gcc-java <ditto>
	* gcc-objc <ditto>
and extracted the files in my /c/mingw directory (I had actually installed
them in another location, but the installation produced a message that
said they should preferably be installed in /c/mingw so I uninstalled them
and deleted the extracted files, then created /c/mingw and installed again).

I looked through the notes, files, and so forth and found no instructions
for installing the GCC files, other than the instruction to download them
in the mingw root directory.

So I attempted to execute GCC on a source file.  The compilation failed,
because the compiler could not find stdio.h.  Because I don't have it.  It
isn't included in the binary distributions.

So I went back and got all the sources, and had no trouble locating the .h
files.  But I don't know how to get GCC to find them.  The FAQ didn't have
any reference to how to download the binaries and use them that I could see,
and I copied them into /usr/includes and /usr/local/includes but it didn't
help.

I made a gcc/bin subdirectory (as one does) and (after editing Danny's
example build.sh to delete the compiler extensions I didn't want) executed

../gcc/configure

which of course failed because I don't have a gcc that works (because it
can't find the .h files).

There seems to be a related function "fixinc" but I didn't manage to figure
out how to invoke it or otherwise make use of it.

Can anybody help me?  Thanks heaps.

Burnie