I have menaged to install the cygwin product but the command : gcc --version fails saying the file gcc is unknown
below is the set of packages that i installed - what is missing cause i've folowed the install instructions to the letter - even though i installed newer versions...
855 base-passwd-2.2-1.tar.bz2
514,165 bash-3.0-14.tar.bz2
12,307,814 binutils-20050610-1-src.tar.bz2
4,619,594 binutils-20050610-1.tar.bz2
46 clear-1.0-2.tar.bz2
1,404,680 cygwin-1.5.19-4.tar.bz2
46 gcc-3.4.4-1.tar.bz2
13,323,520 gcc-core-3.4.4-1-src.tar.bz2
3,709,052 gcc-core-3.4.4-1.tar.bz2
2,481,063 gcc-g++-3.4.4-1-src.tar.bz2
3,031,670 gcc-g++-3.4.4-1.tar.bz2
46 gcc-mingw-20040810-1-src.tar.bz2
46 gcc-mingw-20040810-1.tar.bz2
3,565,298 gcc-mingw-core-20050522-1-src.tar.bz2
70,447 gcc-mingw-core-20050522-1.tar.bz2
4,737,631 gcc-mingw-g++-20050522-1-src.tar.bz2
1,938,737 gcc-mingw-g++-20050522-1.tar.bz2
686,115 libiconv2-1.9.2-2.tar.bz2
19,495 libintl2-0.12.1-3.tar.bz2
16,273 libintl3-0.14.5-1.tar.bz2
169,516 libncurses8-5.4-4.tar.bz2
80,862 libreadline6-5.1-4.tar.bz2
249,826 mingw-runtime-3.9-2-src.tar.bz2
218,894 mingw-runtime-3.9-2.tar.bz2
349,256 ncurses-5.4-4.tar.bz2
194,430 terminfo-5.4_20041009-1.tar.bz2
695,242 texinfo-4.8-1.tar.bz2
1,153,271 w32api-3.6-1.tar.bz2
381 _update-info-dir-00373-1.tar.bz2
thanx for any help