Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/11/08/07:15:06.1
Hello.
Tim Boston wrote:
> I can't for the life of me get DJGPP to recognize long filenames under
> XP. I've fiddled with the LFN environment variable, but to no avail --
> GCC (3.3.2) can't find files > 8.3.
>
> Although I've been reading around (DJGPP FAQ and here), I'm still not
> even sure if there IS support and I'm doing something wrong, or there
> simply CANNOT BE long filenames with DJGPP+XP.
>
> Help? Thanks in advance!
It should work fine with Windows XP. I believe several of the djgpp-workers
(DJGPP's developers) use Windows XP. IIRC LFN support was one of the major new
features of Windows 2000 for DOS users.
Could you post an example of gcc failing to work, please? That might help
diagnose the problem.
It's also possible that there are some bugs in DJGPP 2.03 that are fixed in
the development version of DJGPP. Please see Andrew Cottrell's testing page
for packages built with the development version of DJGPP:
http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_204.htm
These may work better on Windows XP.
You may wish to post the gcc output, before downloading a lot of packages.
Regards,
--
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]
"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone." -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek
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