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From:	Martin Fraser <frasers AT interlog DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: RSXNTDJ won't compile certain samples
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Date:	Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:59:05 -0400
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I followed your instructions in surf.to\rsxntdj today (thank you very much -
they were clear and very helpful) but had a few problems.  One problem is that I
run on NT (at work and at home) and I wonder if there will be too many problems
trying to run on NT.  I note the following warning in RSXNTDJ's documentation:

Warning: NT 4.0 cannot run the DOS executables from DJGPP inside the Batch
window

What is the Batch window - I didn't see it in the menu list?

A problem that I had was that I installed MSSDK in C:\Program Files\Platform SDK
, a pathname which is obviously not 8.3.  I followed your instructions and put
%MSSDK%\INCLUDE into the path variable but when I looked at the PATH variable in
DOS, it reported %MSSDK% instead of expanding it properly (and environment
variable MSSDK was there and properly typed).  I tried to MAKE one of the
samples and it complained immediately so I hard coded 'C:\Program Files\Platform
SDK\' into PATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH, and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH which helped a bit, but
the MSSDK directory in C_INCLUDE_PATH and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH seemed to be
ignored.  I successfully did a MAKE on the WINEDIT sample though.

At that point I noticed though, that I had skipped the step of running DOPATCH
to patch RSXNTDJ\INCLUDE\MSSDK which is at the front of both Include paths.  I
ran DOPATCH and then I couldn't recompile WINEDIT.

The version of MSSDK that I have (not sure if I installed it through Visual
Studio, MSDN, or via the Net - I left my machine working on it at Microsoft's
site for a few hours one afternoon chewing up a good portion of our T1
connection no doubt) is July 1999 and I think it has problems with the RSXNTDJ
files.  When I ran 'dopatch.bat'  on the RSXNTDJ\INCLUDE\MSSDK file the messages
were ambiguous and I wasn't sure if it had failed or succeeded (once again after
changing %MSSDK% to "C:\Program Files\Platform SDK" in the batch file).

As I mentioned above, now when I run MAKE in the sample\gui\winedit directory
the result is definitely not successful.  The last page in my DOS box shows a
list of syntax errors associated with richedit.h and then it looks like MAKE
halts with a return value of 1.

Has anyone gotten RSXNTDJ to work successfully with NT (I thought with NT in the
name that it would be good, but now I'm not so sure)?  Is the 8.3 limitation too
much of a problem?  Note that I did skip your step 4 since I figure it doesn't
apply.

And finally, when I run the IDE, I am stumped by the IDE EDITOR defaults?  [Have
you guessed that my knowledge of German is nil?]  The only choice I recognized
was Microsoft WinWord (I'd rather use Wordpad for quick editing), but when I
chose it, I wound up with a VisualBasic error in

Sub TmpDDE
Dateiooffnen  ("C:\a few directories\test.c, 0).
End Sub

Dateiooffnen is my recollection (I'm at home and this was at work today) of the
function name and I couldn't figure out the English equivalent.  I guessed at
"FileOpen" but couldn't find an English function like that for VB (which I don't
know at all) in the MSDN library.  Help!!!  How do you make the editor work?

Thanks, Martin

Johan Venter wrote:

> Dellow Family <mhowitt AT mail DOT pris DOT bc DOT ca> wrote in message
> news:001401beffc1$8365a400$62ed3cc7 AT dellows...
>
> >Other RSX files complain of being unable to find libraries too. Can anyone
> offer insight to my problem?
>
> RSXNTDJ 1.5 has many problems. I've written an FAQ on how to get it too work
> correctly. Please see it at http://surf.to/rsxntdj/.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Johan Venter
> ICQ 3643877
> surf.to/djgppig

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