Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/02/08/11:51:07
I really appreciate all of the very quick and friendly help I am
getting on this list!
I think I need to recheck that I am setting the required
environment variables prior to using INFO. (My own turn-around to this
list is slow because I am accessing it from work, but I am installing
the compiler at home, where I don't yet have Internet access.) It may
be that I was trying to use INFO before executing the SET commands. I
was only thinking about the compiler needing the SETs and not INFO.
I have to respond to one person's comment that most programmers
know that GCC is a DOS compiler. Well, you have to start somewhere and
the README file clearly says that DJGPP runs under OS/2.
A couple of people have pointed me to the EMX package. I know
equally little about both DJGPP and EMX. I have not installed EMX yet,
but after downloading it, I can see it is a true OS/2 application and
produces OS/2 programs. I have also found that the documentation is
viewable by a standard OS/2 utility ("VIEW"). So, I am going to take a
harder look at EMX. Since my project involves comparing experiences
with C++ and Ada, both being OS/2 compilers will make for a fairer
comparison.
T. Scott Ankrum -- IBM, Software Solutions Division, Bethesda
Phone: (301)-803-1990 FAX: (301)-803-2377
Inter-Enterprise: USIB1JKV at IBMMAIL
Internet: scott_ankrum AT vnet DOT ibm DOT com
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