Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 10:59:34 PST
From: Jack DOT Duke AT Eng DOT Sun DOT COM (Jack Duke)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Trouble installing DJGPP


I am having some trouble installing djgpp on my son's PC.
He has a 486dx2, with a 540MB drive and 8MB of RAM running PCDOS (Ok we're
talking low cost here!).

There's plenty of space on the drive.
I copied the files off oak.oakland.edu using my Sun workstation at 
work and put the files on floppies using the pcfs ( PC file system )
to mount the floppy as an MSDOS floppy ( it took 25 floppies at 95 to 99%
utilization!).

At home I unzipped the files to directory \djgpp using the supplied
unzip386.exe program supplied with the djgpp files. This all seemed to 
work great. I followed dj's README.1st instructions and copied the
files required, including the maintainance files and then ran the maintaintance
.bat files, in order, as instructed ( actually dj's instructions didn't
mention that they must be run after they are unzipped but I read it in one of 
the other README files, maybe there are some other files that must be run
after they are unzipped? ).

This all worked alright. However, when I go to the \djgpp\samples\hello 
directory to test the compiler it appears something isn't right! I tried the 
testit file first and it tells me all the things I haven't loaded on. It didn't
tell me anything I thought I needed to run the hello compile. It mentioned
Objective-C and Bison but I don't want either one just yet (what's Bison 
anyhow?). However, it then tries to compile the hello program and either hangs 
or re-boots the machine! I tried doing the compile using the tryit program and
manually typing the commands but I get the same result.

I read all the README files I could find and the README.faq file provided with 
djgpp but this problem isn't mentioned and I got no suggestions. However, I 
found a couple of places that mention something that makes me wonder if I got 
all the files I should have. One comment, by dj mentioned that the file 
gas211bn.zip ( the assembler) file is required; however, I have been unable to 
find such a file and the testit program doesn't mention it as missing.
 
The other question is about the install.exe program. I got the impression from 
the README file that this is only used if installing from floppies provided by 
dj or the FSF. I didn't try running it yet; should I run this program? I'm sure
the files are not loaded on my floppies like the ones provided by dj or FSF.

I'm pretty new to the DOS world; I have done all my work in UNIX so there may
be some very basic problem I'm not aware of at work here. I'd appreciate any
suggestions you can make.


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* Jack Duke                                                       *
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