How do I point Cygwins compiler to a different version of GCC

For example I have

D:/MinGW with gcc version 4.6.1

D:/cygwin/usr/bin/gcc has version 4.5.x

I wo开发者_StackOverflow社区uld like to make Cygwin use my 4.6.1 version of GCC

Thanks

okey you have installed cygwin and Mingw both so now to use gcc 4.6.1 version of cygwin

1> go in cygwin folder you will find cygwin.bat file so run that file and use gcc

2> if you are planning to use gcc 4.6.1 in your IDE then set path of cygwin folder in that IDE and also set your windows environment path to cygwin/bin

3> if you have already set environment path to cygwin then open cmd write "bash" and start to use gcc 4.6.1

more you can find at here

You can usually do this with a symlink or changing PATH

Cygwin (and most platforms) will run the first gcc it finds in the PATH environment variable. So:

If PATH is: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin then you can symlink your 4.6 version of gcc into /usr/local/bin or you can add /cygdrive/d/MinGW/ to the start of PATH.

However, note that cygwin and mingw are too separate platforms!