Re: Can't compile anything - *.h missing ??

(Victor, the info you pointed to looks useful, but does not apply in my case...)

kmx -- THANK YOU! Your sequence provided all the hint I needed :) :)

On 13 Jun 2011 kmx said...
>> Ideas? Help with how to diagnose? Any thoughts MUCH appreciated!
>
>Could you please send outputs of the following commands:
>
>1/ perl -V:myuname

myuname='Win32 strawberryperl 5.12.3.0 #1 Sun May 15 09:44:53 2011 i386';

>4/ echo C_INCLUDE_PATH=%C_INCLUDE_PATH%

C_INCLUDE_PATH=%C_INCLUDE_PATH%

>Could you check which of the following files exist on your system?
>YES - c:\strawberry\c\i686-w64-mingw32\include\stdlib.h
> NO - c:\strawberry\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\include\stdlib.h
> NO - c:\strawberry\c\include\stdlib.h

I saved the best for last

>2/ gcc -v ...

C:\strawberry\c>gcc -v
Using builtin specs.
gcc version 2.95 19990728 (release)

HMMMmmm... looks a bit old?!

>3/ echo PATH=%PATH%

Long path...

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\wbem;%Commo
nProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows 
Live;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;c:\Program Files 
(x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn;c:\apps\utils\sys 
internals;C:\apps\Utils\Admin\ULTRAE~1;c:\apps\Photo\Hugin\bin;C:\Program 
Files\Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit;C:\apps\Utils\File\DirDate;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;c:\apps\Local;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth 
Toshiba Stack\sys;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba 
Stack\sys\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem;C:\Program 
Files\Intel\WiFi\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon;C:\Program 
Files (x86)\Common Files\Intuit\QBPOSSDKRuntime;C:\apps\tech\FPC\2.4.2\bin\i386-
Win32;C:\apps\tech\perl\c\bin;C:\apps\tech\perl\perl\site\bin;C:\apps\tech\perl\perl\bin;
C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin

THANK YOU!!! That was all the hint I needed.

* Put strawberry path elements up front and suddenly gcc works
* Searched my drive (because my old "which.exe" no longer works on x64 :( ) for 
gcc.exe -- found it in the FPC (Free Pascal) folder
* Moved FPC to the end of the PATH

ALL IS WELL. Hooray! :) :)

Blessings,
pete