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Re: File list on gcc-core (bin and dev and dll)

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GCC toolchain. The support libraries (mpc, mpfr,
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commands that use -pthread need to link
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You can also add the following additional

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(See the MSYS page for installation
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Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On June 22nd, 2009 Jondlar says:

I installed using the process BUT this release is

quite old. The gcc.gnu.org page suggests current
stable release is 4.4 while the MinGW installer

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installs 3.4. Also this installer has g77 which is

no longer a part of GNU compiler suite, its
replaced by fortran95.

Thanks for your kindness for the MinGW

compilers suite :)

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite
On April 7th, 2010 lmichaels says:

Use the MinGW installer to get everything

set up in the proper directories. Then if you
want version 4.4, download gcc-full-4.4.0-
mingw32-bin-2.tar.lzma from the MinGW
Sourceforge download page. You can
decompress and unarchive using 7za from
the 7zip web site. For instance, download
the file to the c:\mingw directory, cd to that
directory and then type:

7za x gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin-2.tar.lzma

7za x gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin-2.tar

This should update your MinGW compiler

suite. If you're using msys, there may be
some other files you'll want to update as
well.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On June 19th, 2009 Sham says:

i have to install MinGW in my windows system.I

am using MinGW-5.1.4 and i run the MinGW-
5.1.4.Exe,after that i select custom from the
dropdown box,and then, l selected g++
compiler,g77 compiler and MinGW Make
only.Destination folder like C:\MinGW.This is
correct way to install MinGW.Please help me how
to install MinGW in the windows.I am using
Windows XP.

Regards
Sham

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Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite
On June 22nd, 2009 Jondlar says:

Download MinGW automated installer from

http://sourceforge.net/project
/showfiles.php?group_id=2435

Run it and choose options as per needed. It

would install everything right. Then add
C:\MinGW\bin to you PATH variable.

More detail is available on this web site if

you care to search.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On June 12th, 2009 renato says:

Is there a way to install MinGW with objC

garbage collector enabled ?

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On June 11th, 2009 cshong says:

MinGW automated installer does not let me

select the mirror for downloading files.

This cause very slow in downloading and

installing MinGW.

Please update it.

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On June 11th, 2009 keith says:

You can set a preferred mirror in your own

SourceForge user preferences. The installer
uses whatever you have set there, with SF's
automatic mirror selection as fallback. No
update is necessary.

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Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On June 8th, 2009 cbibbs says:

Is there a plan or guide for users who need to

install MinGW to the "Program Files" or
"AppData" directories? MS is becoming more
hard line about installs that reside outside of
their standard locations.

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On June 9th, 2009 keith says:

So, Microsoft own your computer, do they?

It isn't their right to tell you how you must

deploy your hardware. The canonically
correct place to install MinGW is C:\MinGW,
but you may move it anywhere else that you
prefer, subject to the caveat that you must
avoid path names with embedded
spaces. If Microsoft tell you they can't allow
you to accommodate that, tell them where
to get off!

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On May 21st, 2009 pir says:

The MinGW installer is great, both for initial

installs and for updates. But would it be possible
to add the gdb debugger to the list of things it
(optionally) installs/updates? Surely a debugger
is a pretty essential component?

Peter

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On May 21st, 2009 aaousr says:

Is it correct that the MinGW download page link

at the start of the Manual Installation

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instructions given above points to the MinGW

Utilities: TclTk download page? Is the TclTk
package a pre-requisite of the MinGW Compiler
Suite?

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On May 21st, 2009 keith says:

No, and certainly not. I've corrected the

reference; thanks for the heads-up.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On April 27th, 2009 fferay says:

Is there a way to install MinGW with objC

garbage collector enabled ?

Thanks

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On April 27th, 2009 sandeep3181 says:

Hi,

I am not able to get these ir entries ,w hat are

they supposed to do??

=======================

ren dir dir.binutils

cd ..
..
.cd info
copy dir dir.gcc
copy dir+dir.binutils

========

kindly elaborate!!

Sandeep

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Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On April 27th, 2009 keith says:

Why? Already asked, and answered. If you

opened your eyes, and read the comment
immediately below, you would have had
no need to ask again! Indeed, it's already
elaborated, in the notes following the
relevant instruction, within the article itself!

A file is missing.
On April 23rd, 2009 JFG says:

The copy I got of <binutils-2.19.1-mingw32-

bin.tar.gz> from this site does not include a file
called <dir>. Is that file supposed to always be
produced by <tar.exe>? I used <bsdtar.exe>
because that is what I got from
<http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages
/tar.htm>. Is that causing the problem? What is
that file used for? Is it really important?

Re: A file is missing.

On April 23rd, 2009 keith says:

Nope. That file should never be distributed;

see my earlier comment to this same article,
and this bug report.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On April 10th, 2009 japoco_87 says:

and so
when i compile gcc doesn't create e .exe with
the same name but a file called 'a.exe'
Ps
i ve window XP

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Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On April 13th, 2009 keith says:

This comment is off-topic for this article;

please use the mailing list.

For completeness here: this is correct

behaviour -- default executable name is
a.exe for all compilations. If you want
something else, you must say so explicitly,
by using the -o exename option, e.g.

gcc -o foo foo.c

will create an executable called foo.exe.

HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On April 10th, 2009 japoco_87 says:

i ve installed MinGW with Automated (GUI)

Installer.
on internet someone says to di this in
enviroment setting:

Nome: INCLUDE
Valore: C:\MinGW\include

Nome: LIB
Valore: C:\MinGW\lib

Nome: MINGW
Valore: C:\MinGW

Nome: PATH
Valore: C:\MinGW\bin

is it the truth?

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

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On April 13th, 2009 keith says:

The last is correct. The first three are

unnecessary.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On March 18th, 2009 ouid says:

Require assistance.
0) I installed Mingw-5.1.4 "automatically" to
C:\Documents and Settings\ouid\MinGW.
1) For some reason it didn't update my env.
variables.
I added "C:\Documents and Settings\ouid
\MinGW\bin\" to env.tables
2) I created file a.c with "int main(){}"
3) I try: C:\Documents and Settings\ouid\c>gcc
a.c
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No
such file or directory
4) I added "C:\Documents and Settings\ouid
\MinGW\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\" to
%PATH%.
5) I try: C:\Documents and Settings\ouid\c>gcc
a.c
ld: crt2.o: No such file: No such file or directory
After some googling I found that setting
GCC_EXEC_PREFIX to lib/ directory will resolve
the issue.
6) I added GCC_EXEC_PREFIX="C:\Documents
and Settings\ouid\MinGW\lib\" to env variables
7) I try: C:\Documents and Settings\ouid\c>gcc
a.c and it does NOTHING
but freezes up for eternity.
8) Google said that dropping everything from
path and using full pathnames like
C:\Documents and Settings\ouid\bin\gcc a.c
works. And it's really work. But this is
workaround looks too stupid for obvious reasons.
Well, creating gcc.bat thal calls C:\Documents
and Settings\ouid\bin\mingw32-gcc and putting
it in %PATH% works, but this workaround sucks.

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What can be done to run gcc from %PATH%ed

directory properly?

PS. My os is windows xp.

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On March 18th, 2009 keith says:

Please review the updated version of the

instructions. In particular, note the time
honoured advice about path names which
include spaces; (since you've used such a
degenerate installation path, you should
uninstall, and then install again, properly).

Also note the section about setting up your

environment; you should not need to add
anything else, but you must add
C:\MinGW\bin to the PATH variable.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On February 27th, 2009 marijke says:

Not sure if this is the right place for this.

Attempted to install MinGW for the first time, via
the installer (today 27 feb 2009 around 22
GMT), install dir C:\MinGW. Got as far as un-
gz'ing / un-tar'ing the g++ tarball:

Extracting gcc-
g++-3.4.5-20060117-3.tar.gz
untgz::extract -d 'C:\MinGW' -z
'C:\Users\root\Desktop\gcc-
g++-3.4.5-20060117-...
tgz_extract: bad header checksum
Error: Failure reading from tarball.

Downloaded installer again, compared fc /b,

same.

Ran again, same error.

Found where it keeps the *.tar.gz, removed

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offending one to force re-download, same error.

Ran installer from C:\tmp rather than Desktop to

force shorter paths, same error.

Ran again with all same options except without

g++ this time, installed fine. I think. Not tried
yet.

Really seems to be that *g++*.tar.gz then.

--marijke

PS 32-bit Windows Vista Home Plus with the

latest service packs, Firefox 3.0.6, on a MAXdata
(dual core AMD64, 1G ram, 80G partition with
68G free).

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On March 2nd, 2009 keith says:

1) This is not the right place for this sort of

discussion; you should use the mailing list,
(and you should first search the archives:

http://search.gmane.org/?query=g
%2B%2B+download&
group=gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user

and review associated threads (click on an

article reference link, then on the `subject'
link in the article view)).

2) The problem results from SourceForge

themselves having broken the `files' page
scripting, (which is common to all their
hosted projects), such that it chokes on files
with `+' signs, (or possibly explicitly `++'),
within the name, and fails to generate a
valid download mirror URL. It has been
reported:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker
/?func=detail&aid=2630791&group_id=1&
atid=200001

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No fix has yet been forthcoming. Bug SF

about it; only they can fix it; we are
powerless to resolve it.

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite
On February 28th, 2009 marijke says:

Okay, so i've now read burton's msg of 22

feb and the manual workarounds, in the
Getting Started | MinGW wiki (how do you
link to another thread?)

So consider this a heads-up that it's still

broken. Must put lots of new people off. And
i can't say i now understand *what* exactly
the error with this one file is...

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On February 26th, 2009 day260209 says:

do not install MinGW into the same path as

MSYS

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On February 16th, 2009 yipinx says:

I´m missing the gdb installation package from

this HOWTO. Actually its missing in the
automated installer as well. It would be nice if
the automated installer would notify the user
what version of the package it will
download/install if you choose previous, current
or candidate package.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On December 29th, 2008 str1chn1n3 says:

While the gzip and tar commands are useful, it

would be useful to state the directory name
explicitly for those like me that choose to
manually create the info-dir directories another
way. It was not clear whether the directory
needed to be named 'dir' or 'info-dir' or 'dir.cc',

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etc, without crinkling the brow. Thanks for all

this, btw...

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On January 5th, 2009 keith says:

In the context of info, `dir' is a file, not a

directory (in the file system sense); it is
always called `dir', and is found in a
directory in the `INFOPATH'. Please see the
comment below, which I added in August
2008, concerning the proper way to
manage info's `dir' files.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite
On September 4th, 2008 SteveChapel says:

I propose merging these instructions into the

existing instructions on the Getting Started
page. I don't see the sense in having automated
installation described on the Getting Started
page and manual installation described in a
HOWTO.

Re: HOWTO Install the

MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

On September 12th, 2008 keith says:

I can see a practical reason for keeping

them segregated.

The `Getting Started' really should be just a

`Quick Start' guide, for new users. Such
users really don't want to be overwhelmed
by too much detail -- they just want to get
up and running with a minimum of fuss.

OTOH, more experienced users may

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appreciate more detailed information. Such

users may wish to maintain multiple
installations, at different version levels for
example, or to incrementally upgrade an
existing installation, as newer components
are released. (They may wish to do this
directly, *without* having to go through the
pain of running a nasty wizard style installer,
which is really best suited to first time
installation only -- ok, that's just my opinion
of them, but I'm sure I'm not alone). The
detailed information needed to facilitate this
doesn't really belong in a `Getting Started'
guide; it deserves a more extensive
`HOWTO' document.

I'd actually suggest *simplifying* the

`Getting Started' page, (to make it a real
`Quick Start' guide), and keep this
`HOWTO' as a detailed reference. Include a
link to here, on the `Getting Started' page,
for users wanting more detail, and if
necessary merge any content removed from
`Getting Started' in here.

Re: HOWTO Install the MinGW

(GCC) Compiler Suite

On August 26th, 2008 keith says:

Re the concatenation of info/dir files:

More recent versions of the distributed packages

should not even provide the precompiled dir
files. These are only useful for users who have
an info viewer installed, which basically means
those who use MSYS[1].

For those who do use MSYS, you will have both

the info viewer, and also the supporting
makeinfo and install-info tools; the correct way
to build the dir file is to run each of the supplied
*.info files through install-info:

cd info;

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for file in *.info; do install-info $file dir; done

[1] Yes, I know GnuWin32 also provides an info

package; last time I looked, their viewer didn't
work. Cygwin also has it, and that works, but
uses the dir files installed in the Cygwin tree. It
is possible that an alternative native
implementation is available elsewhere; if so, it
should also provide an install-info tool.

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