On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Josh Padilla wrote: > I've just started up with cygwin. I'd to install only the absolute minimum > number of packages neccesary to do first year c/c++ student programming under > gcc. Is there a document/website which goes into detailed discussion of each > cygwin package? > > Thanks, > Josh Padilla
Probably the best way (that involves the least effort on your part) is to run setup.exe, set all packages to "Skip", then select "gcc-g++". setup should then automatically[*] select all the dependences (prerequisites). Technically, you can view all the dependences in the setup.ini file that you can get from any Cygwin mirror, and select packages by hand, but why? [*] ...if the packages maintainers have done their stuff correctly (they usually do). You should still try running the programs, and if a missing DLL box pops up, use the package search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find out which additional package you need, and install that package. Then please run "cygcheck -f <exec>", where <exec> is the program that resulted in the message, and report to this list that the package printed by cygcheck is missing a dependence on the package you had to install. Whew, hope this makes sense. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
