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From: | mike woodard |
Subject: | c++ pkg to run on vista/dell: gcc, make, gzip, tar, binutils, |
Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:39:35 GMT |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) |
How does one get an initial set of working tools? It looks to me like you have to have all the tools already to be able to use the gnu tools downloads.I wanted to get a complete gnu c/c++ development pkg on my new dell running vista and I ran headfirst into an open loop:
The compiler requires unzipping, so I go get gzip and it has to be unzipped too?
I acquired a freeware compress/uncompress application, unpack the downloaded gcc.tar.gz and discover that gcc must be built; there are no binaries in the download. I don't have a compiler to compile it with. If I had a compiler it wouldn't do me any good because I would alsoneed make. The make download doesn't have any binaries and must be built but requires a working make executable to build it.
How is this supposed to work? I obviously skipped an important first step somewhere. Would somebody please loan me a clue?
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