Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/26/01:57:33
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Graeme Pyle wrote:
> i don't know if there is something i'm missing, or if this hasn't been
> addressed in djgpp (or if gcc -lfn -c main.cc would work... and i will slap
> myself if it does), but i thought i should point it out because it really
> drove me mad (i almost flamed dj delorie and robert hoene ;-P ):
You need to set LFN=y in the environment, in order to have gcc support
long filenames properly. You can only do that in the DOS box under
Windows 95, though; when you boot in DOS mode, the LFN support is
unavailable and gcc will only see the 8+3 aliases that Windows 95
creates.
> i really hope i haven't missed anything that fixes all of this, because
> then i've wasted a lot of time.
Sorry, you did miss something, see above.
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