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Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:55:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999
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enovack wrote:
> I'm having a similar issue with trying to get the GNU g++ and gcc compiler's
> to work with Eclipse and Netbeans. Both report that the file is not valid or
> not found when compiling a C or C++ file.
>
> I have just downloaded the latest production release of Cygwin and installed
> the complete dev environment. I'm running 64 bit Vista SP2. I have the
> cygwin\bin path added to my DOS path.
>
> Has anyone gotten the latest Cygwin to work with Netbeans or Eclipse?
>
> I was able to get older version of Cygwin to work with both Netbeans and
> Eclipse in the past just by setting up the DOS path to include
> C:\cygwin\bin. Now I see that the gcc.exe and g++.exe are links, which I now
> assume are not working properly in a DOS environment. Which of course is
> needed by both Eclipse and Netbeans.
I don't use either of those, but you should be able to configure them to
just directly invoked gcc-3.exe or gcc-4.exe, thereby bypassing the link
altogether, shouldn't you?
cheers,
DaveK
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