From:	kevin AT reality-bytesX DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Kevin)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: unknown linker problem.
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:57:31 GMT
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Or you could try reading 

X:\DJGPP\gnu\gcc-2.81\problems.txt

X being your hard drive letter.

Kev




On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:45:52 GMT, mapson AT mapson DOT com (Mapson) wrote:

>I eventually solved this one- it was a long file name problem-
>libstdcxx.a was what the linker wanted, but could only look for a 8.3
>letter version. So I merely renamed a duplicate libstdcx.a. This
>happened despite having long file names enabled in djgpp.env- perhaps
>there is a Rhide option too? At any rate, having a duplicate is no
>prob- it is only a bit over 600k, and will negate the possibility of
>encountering the reverse problem.
>
>I think the problem came about because on one machine I used pkunzip
>(which I guess clips long filenames), on the offending machine I used
>WinZIP- and winzip maintained the long file name! That is the theory
>I'll go on unless otherwise informed.
>
>On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:30:25 GMT, mapson AT mapson DOT com (Mapson) wrote:
>
>>I have two different installations of DJGPP, on two computers. On the
>>older installation, a program I've written in C++ builds perfectly. On
>>the other witht he more recent (and perhaps less cluttered)
>>installation, I get this:
>>
>><start error>
>> Compiling: intname.cpp
>> no errors
>> Creating: intname.exe
>> Error: d:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: cannot open -lstdcx: No such file or
>>directory (ENOENT)
>> There were some errors
>><end error>
>>
>>What could be causing this? I'm confident that I have all the basic
>>files needed to run DJGPP on this computer- I have unzipped at least
>>these:
>>
>>BNU281B  ZIP     1,896,445
>>BNU281D  ZIP     2,609,873
>>DJDEV201 ZIP     1,538,295
>>FAQ210B  ZIP       399,350
>>GCC280D  ZIP     2,810,999
>>GCC281B  ZIP     1,323,710
>>GPP281B  ZIP     1,349,257
>>LGPP280B ZIP       677,799
>>LGPP280D ZIP     1,374,780
>>MAK3761B ZIP       234,827
>>MAK3761D ZIP       753,798
>>RHIDE14B ZIP     1,716,944
>>TXI390B  ZIP       466,929
>>TXI390D  ZIP     1,366,394
>>
>>If it is any help, I am using Rhide on both computers.
>>
>>Please post replies- thanks.
>

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