GCC in vista...the strangest problem..

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:25 am

I have finally figured out how to get GCC almost working, it executes cc1 and all of them

but now I get for a simple #include <stdio.h> it will include that file, But it won't include an include of an include, like in stdio.h is <stddef.h> and to this, it will say "file does not exist"

why the crap is this!? I have tried doing everything, running things as admin and everything...but nothing works

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:29 am

Thats just funny...

AJ · Post by AJ » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:09 am

[disclaimer]I've never used Vista[/disclaimer]

How about running in one of:

a) a compatibility layer ('Run in WinXP compatibility mode')
b) a VM?

I know the latter is quite convoluted, but if you don't want to dual boot with another OS, that may be a decent option.

Cheers,
Adam

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:20 am

really don't want to use a slow emulator, not to mention the fact that I don't have my old windows XP disc

the XP compatibility thing is a joke, it doesn't help the bugs of programs for XP at all, it just makes the programs for Vista screw up

ehird · Post by **ehird** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:54 am

Brynet-Inc wrote: Thats just funny...

Wait, let me guess

UNIX would fix that!

C compilers never fsck up on UNIX!

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:37 pm

ehird wrote:
Brynet-Inc wrote: Thats just funny...
Wait, let me guess

UNIX would fix that!

C compilers never fsck up on UNIX!

No, no no! We don't want to start that again do we?

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:57 pm

/me braces self...

actually GCC does works better on *nix systems it has much more documentation and your not forced to use crazy crap like a win32api emulation thing(cygwin) or the messed up linker of mingw

also unix isn't used nearly as much now, it's all unix variants, like linux, openbsd, ect

edit:
btw I'm a windows user, so I'm not really that biased, but if they ever port a few things like flash mx and some sound recording programs to *nix systems, then I would probably switch..

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:54 pm

I think the real question here is, why on earth would you get Vista only months after its release?

Either way, Vista is trouble for XP users, and their programs, so I'm holding out...

IMO I think your problem is caused by a different library than the XP version of GCC would normally use.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:16 pm

Computers are apparently sold with the OS now pcmattman..

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:18 pm

Ohhhhhhh... I was thinking he upgraded.

ehird · Post by **ehird** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:52 am

It's possible to downgrade (or in this case, upgrade), you know

mystran · Post by **mystran** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:11 pm

hckr83 wrote: edit:
btw I'm a windows user, so I'm not really that biased, but if they ever port a few things like flash mx and some sound recording programs to *nix systems, then I would probably switch..

What do you mean by "some sound recording programs"? If Linux is ok with you, there's everything from simple recorders (too many to list) to DAWs.

Various programs (well, with a bridge anything that supports DSSI) can also host Windows VST plugins (with some help from Wine) if you are into that kind of stuff. Haven't tested that myself though.

As for Flash MX, no idea if that runs in Wine. You could give it a try.

frank · Post by **frank** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:23 pm

I use vista and i have no trouble at all using gcc, maybe you should make sure that all of the includes are in your path.