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GCC in vista...the strangest problem..
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:25 am
by earlz
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
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:29 am
by Brynet-Inc
Thats just funny...
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:09 am
by AJ
[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
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:20 am
by earlz
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
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:54 am
by ehird
Brynet-Inc wrote: Thats just funny...
Wait, let me guess
UNIX would fix that!
C compilers never fsck up on UNIX!
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:37 pm
by Alboin
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?
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:57 pm
by earlz
/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..
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:54 pm
by pcmattman
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:16 pm
by Brynet-Inc
Computers are apparently sold with the OS now pcmattman..
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:18 pm
by pcmattman
Ohhhhhhh... I was thinking he upgraded.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:52 am
by ehird
It's possible to downgrade (or in this case, upgrade), you know
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:11 pm
by mystran
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:23 pm
by frank
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.