FW: gecko Segmentation fault when compiling

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, tlake@twcny.rr.com!

> I uninstalled and deleted the entire cygwin64 directory and reinstalled
> using the defaults. The download time was much shorter but I still can't
> compile anything with the C compiler even with no anti-virus running.

Base cygwin installation is a POSIX userspace and essential Cygwin tools, it
does not include any compilers at all, quite predictable.

> I'm surprised the default installation doesn't include make or dir.h.

Why it should?

> Adding make was no problem but it took me a while to find a package that
> contains dir.h.

I think we need a "build-essential" metapackage.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:56:17

Sorry for my terrible english...


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