From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Troubles compiling W95 application 5 May 1998 21:45:07 -0700 Message-ID: <19980505164432.19604.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1c.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: lsavaete AT club-internet DOT fr, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Please see the important upgrade notice at the end of this note. ---Laurent Savaete wrote: > > Hello ! > I have just downloaded the Cygwin32 b19 archive (CDK.exe) very happy to > find a *FREE* C++ compiler for W95. I found the address in the news > group "comp.lang.C++". > But I have a HUGE PROBLEM : I typed in a script for Visual C++ 4.0, > another for Borland C++ 4.5 and tried to compile them first with GCC.EXE > provided in the archive then using a Win95 interface called DFE95 that > calls Gcc.exe ! > But no way ! They just sent me back a dozen error messages :-( > What shall I do ? HELP !!!! I think I should tell you I am just > beginning with C++. > But those programs are right typed . It seems to me that some libraries > or definitions are missing. > To help you answer I attach the scripts (in txt files) I tried. > -the one called AppSpy should write on a file the programs that are > launched in W95 > -the other called screen is a screen capture app to copy any part of > the screen to the Clipboard. > I hope this will help. > Here is the part of my autoexec.bat file that sets the environment > variables. > SET MAKE_MODE=unix > SET CYGFS=C:/Office/prog/cygnus/b19 > SET GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=C:\OFFICE\PROG\CYGNUS\B19\H-I386~1\lib\gcc-lib\ > SET TCL_LIBRARY=%CYGROOT%\share\tcl8.0\ > SET GDBTK_LIBRARY=%CYGFS%/share/gdbtcl > SET PATH=C:\OFFICE\PROG\CYGNUS\B19\H-I386~1\bin;%PATH% > I have also created a \tmp directory and read all the faq. > > I am really disappointed that it doesn't work because I will be obliged > to buy a commercial version if you do not answer this.(and commercial > software costs a bit more than in the USA in France :-( > > Hoping to hear from you soon > Best regards > Laurent Savaete > > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 update from the Cygnus Site). Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if your using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that comes with the tools have lots of problems that have been fixed with the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset. URL's are listed above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".