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

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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

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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!