Now everything works. I knew that I had never downloaded gcc before; but I downloaded Free Pascal maybe a year ago and they had this old version of gcc included. Now I get
d:\cygwin\home\Administrator\c-programme>gcc -v gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/specs Configured with: /netrel/src/gcc-3.2-1/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,java --enable-l ibgcj --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-inclu ded-gettext --enable-interpreter --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-version -specific-runtime-libs --enable-shared --build=i686-pc-linux --host=i686-pc- cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin --enable-haifa --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/u sr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/nonexistent/include --l ibexecdir=/usr/sbin Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2 20020818 (prerelease) and I could compile my test.cpp. Thank you for your help. Janos Blazi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/