Problem after updating and reinstalling.

[marco atzeri]

On 12/14/2012 6:58 PM, asallen08 wrote:
>> ?? On my system :
> $ ls -l $(which gcc)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco None 21 Nov 13  2011 /usr/bin/gcc ->
> /etc/alternatives/gcc
>
> It shows:
> AL@Alecia-PC ~
> $ ls -i $(which gcc)
> 1688849860496757 /usr/bin/gcc

"l" as lake not "i" as idea
>
>> Alecia,
>> have you noticed :
>>    "Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path"
>>
>>   2604k 2011/03/29 C:\cygwin\home\AL\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2011/3/29 9:10
>>      Cygwin DLL version info:
>>          DLL version: 1.7.9
>>
>>   2791k 2012/10/19 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>>                    "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2012/10/19 13:39
>>      Cygwin DLL version info:
>>          DLL version: 1.7.17
>>
>>
>>
>> you need to remove the "C:\cygwin\home\AL\cygwin1.dll"
>> This is likely the responsible of your problem.
>
> I haven't noticed any of that. Once I deleted C:\cygwin\home\AL\cygwin1.dll
> I am now able to compile and run programs.
>
>> Additional suggestion, not relevant for the problem:
>> you seems to have installed a lot of gcc compiler
>>
>> but instead of the obsolete
>>
>> gcc-core                  3.4.4-999            OK
>> gcc-g++                   3.4.4-999            OK
>>
>> you could choose to install the next version
>>
>> gcc4                                     4.5.3-3
>> gcc4-core                                4.5.3-3
>>
>> Are you sure you need all the mingw compilers ?
>
> I am not sure what all I need. My professor just said go to the site and
> download Cygwin and use the default settings and that is what I did.

gcc4 is to compile on cygwin for cygwin.
So it is the standard one used to build the cygwin binaries.

The mingw compilers are cross-compilers.
They compile on cygwin for mingw/windows (http://www.mingw.org/)

> I will
> do some research and find out how to install the current versions of the
> suggested compilers. One final question should I now be using the Cygwin
> Terminal instead of Cygwin.bat shortcut?
>

"Cygwin Terminal" is the right (and best)  way

> Thanks again for your help and advice. I really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Alecia
>

Welcome to cygwin
Marco

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