[Mingw-users] Problem with standard C headers

[Pascal Q. <pas...@fr...>]

Hello,

First post the mailing list. I am trying to install Mingw compiler on
a new computer (I have already installed Mingwin compiler several
years ago on a previous computer without any problem). I have no
direct access to the Web and I didn't want to install msys. So I did
the following:

  - I manually downloaded some packages for the new GCC 4.5 release:
    gcc-core-4.5.0-1-mingw32-bin, gcc-c++-4.5.0-1-mingw32, ....
  - I installed the packages in C:\Program Files\Mingw and I added the bin
    dir to the PATH.
  - I can launch the gcc exe, but I am not able to compile simple C
    programs due to the fact gcc doesn't find C headers like stdio.h,
    math.h, ... Effectively they are not present in my installation[*].

I tried with the gcc 4.0 full package but I got the same problem. Do I
have to install a dedicated package to get those includes? Or is there
anything special to do that I am not aware of (I didn't approach a C
compiler since a lot of years).

TIA.

[*]  In fact the include files exist on my installation but they are
     not located in one of the directories searched for
     compilation. For example stdio.h is in ssp and tr1 subdirs.

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Pascal Quesseveur
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