Re: GCC 3.1 released

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message news:<042C69DEA01C5AFD.8E8C21B503ACB9D1.91C0731258790EF7@lp.airnews.net>...
> What file(s) do I need to download from where to get the Windows version of
> Gnat/GCC?  

The GCC sources are available directly from the CVS server at
http://gcc.gnu.org , or you can ftp them from the mirror at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.1/ . I think you can take the whole
thing, or get just the "core" and "ada" tarballs.

Go to the Mingw download page (
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 ) to get a
small Unix-like system to use for building. If you can get it to build
with cygwin, you're a better man than I (you may be anyway :-)  ). You
will probably just want to start with the latest stable WingW
distribution, which right now is 1.1. You may end up needing MSys and
Contrib as well (I haven't gotten that far yet).

I have some old directions from a kind soul I asked for help a long
time ago, wherein he warned about path confusion between cygwin and
gnat on one hand, and mingw on the other, causing no end of trouble. I
can vouch that this is a problem. I'm still stuck on it myself.
(Perhaps I should just uninstall gnat and cygwin for now).


> Is there a procedure somewhere?

There *needs* to be.


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