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Re: Five newbie questions
- To: Neil Zanella <nzanella at cs dot mun dot ca>, Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Five newbie questions
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 18:35:12 -0400
At 05:45 PM 10/7/2000, Neil Zanella wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am new to Win2K and CygWin (although not to Unix).
>I just installed CygWin 1.1.4 on Windows 2000.
>I have five questions.
>
>(i)
>Why do I get the following error when trying to compile a simple
>ANSI C "Hello World" program?
>
>$ gcc hello.c
>gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory$
Install binutils.
>(ii) I have the Borland 5.5 free compiler installed as well as the LCC
>free compiler.
OK, don't mix-and-match!;-)
>(iii) What flags should I use to compile a Win32 source file?
That's a loaded question. It really depends on what you want to get as a
result and what the file needs.
>(iv) A bit off topic: What is nmake? Do I need it or can I use plain make?
nmake is MS's version of make. For GCC, use make.
>(v) A friend of mine wants to install CygWin but has spaces in the Windows
> Logon user name (Win2K). Is this still a problem with CygWin 1.1.4 and
> is there a sys admin tool in Win2K that can be used to change the logon
> name to one without spaces?
DJ just made a change to the installer that's supposed to handle this.
Still, I'd recommend changing the login name to not contain spaces. It
will be less headaches overall. I expect other applications using the
login name will be confused by spaces as well...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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