Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/17/02:50:28
Coppola, Richard A wrote:
>
> Sir:
> I purchased the FSF cdrom titled, "GNU Compiler Tools Binaries Edition 3,
> December 1995.
Unfortunately, the Free Software Foundation CD-ROM includes a fairly
out-of-date version of the djgpp compiler. That edition came with
version 1.12m4, as I recall, and did not include all of the goodies that
djgpp can use; only a very basic set of programs.
> 1. about the compiler options
All the compiler options are documented in the Info documentation that
should come with the distribution.
> 2. how to get on line documentation or help
You can read these with a hypertext viewer that supports the Info
format, such as the one available with djgpp.
> 3. how to get a compiler output listing of the source code, such as what
> you get with a FORTRAN compiler
I'm not sure what you are asking here. Do you want the code as it comes
out of the preprocessor, before it goes to the compiler? Or are you
looking for the assembly output? In either case, there is a switch to
do so: -E outputs the preprocessed code to standard output, and -S
outputs an assembly language file for each input file. If you want
something else, please be more specific. :)
> 4. how to direct the compiler output to a file (>fn doesn't seem to work)
That's because COMMAND.COM doesn't support redirecting stderr. With
DJGPP version 1, you must instruct the go32 DOS extender to redirect
stderr by setting certain flags in the GO32 environment variable. I'm
working purely from memory here, but if you do something like this:
set GO32=2r1
you should then be able to redirect all output from djgpp programs
normally.
Version 2 of DJGPP uses a different method of redirecting stderr.
I don't know if the CD-ROM contains online documentation for djgpp, as I
didn't get djgpp that way. However, all the djgpp resources you could
ever dream of are yours on the Internet.
For starters, visit http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/, and begin looking at
what's old, what's new, and what's available. Look through the FAQ
lists (both for version 1 and version 2), and look at the Getting DJGPP
page.
When you've seen enough, go to the nearest SimTel FTP site listed in the
FAQ chapter 4.1. The most commonly used US mirror is
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/.
Once there, you must make the decision of whether to stick with version
1, and just download the files you need, or to upgrade to version 2.01,
which is the currently supported version, and replace all your files.
The directories for each version are clearly labeled; you should start
by getting either 'v1/readme.1st' or 'v2/readme.1st' and looking in it
to see what files to get and how to install them.
While you may have reasons for wanting to stay with what you got from
the FSF CD, I highly recommend upgrading to the latest version as soon
as you can. There are so many things that are improved, and more
importantly, version 1 is no longer supported by the djgpp developers.
With any luck, either a new updated distribution will soon be released
on the FSF CD, or the DJGPP Book Project (http://www2.ari.net/flyboy)
will finally reach its conclusion and publish a full distribution of its
own.
Hope this helps!
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