Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/05/13/10:53:12
Thanks for your response.
I did reinstall yet again, and went to a third mirror. A lot more opened
up than on the initial attempts, and so found what I needed.
Are all the mirrors equal?
David
Warren Young wrote:
> David Ziants wrote:
>> Explicitly tried to install/reinstall the "develop" package where gcc
>> is supposed to be installable from.
>
> While setup.exe will let you install the entire Devel category, that's
> probably not what you actually did, nor do you generally want to.
> There's a whole lot of stuff in that category, most of which you'll
> probably never need.
>
> What you probably want is to open that section up, then click where it
> says "Skip" next to every individual package you want that isn't
> currently installed. Each time you click, it changes to a different
> mode for the package; you want to see Keep, a version number, or
> Reinstall, not Skip or Default. setup.exe handles dependencies
> automatically, so a minimal install is to click on gcc-core. You'll
> probably need other things as well, such as make, a text editor,
> additional compilers, etc.
>
> Having to go back through setup.exe several times is normal, by the
> way. I rarely get a fresh Cygwin setup right the first time. As you
> begin to use it, you'll discover something lacking, and usually it's
> available in Cygwin but not installed by default.
>
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