From: "Martin Hurst" <martinh AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: rsxntdj
Date: 8 Jan 1998 03:00:09 GMT
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Hi Robert,

I just recently downloaded rsxntdj and was not able to get it running
"Hello world" either ... until ... I dove into the documentation that came
with it and was finally able to piece together all the information I needed
to finally make it work.

I too recently bought a book titled "Teacher Yourself Windows 95
Programming in 21 days", author Charles Calvert, Sams publishing. So I was
pretty keen on jumping right into it.

Basically I had to download the set of PLATFORMSDK set of zip files, which
I found doing a web search leading me to the ftp site,

http://193.136.16.232/msdownload/PLATFORMSDK

There I downloaded the following files:

/msdownload/PLATFORMSDK/ - 

   12/6/96 10:05 AM       977736 PLATFORMBIN.EXE
   12/6/96 10:05 AM      1526592 PLATFORMINC.EXE
   11/27/96  4:22 PM      1229128 PLATFORMSDK.EXE
    6/4/97  1:39 PM        <dir> SAMPLES

Then I ran these download files and installed them onto my computer.
Next I followed the steps that the rsxntdj doc's outlined to copy and move
the Include files into the proper directories so that rsxntdj could see
them and use them. I also set up the path's and Set Eniroment's as outline
in the doc's.

I then was able to write the following sample "my first window C program'
..."

--------------------------

// Program LaoTzu.cpp
#include <windows.h>

// Some pragmas to surpress unneeded warnings
#pragmas warning (disable: 4068)
#pragmas argused

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst,
                   HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                   LPSTR lpszCmdParm, int nCmdShow)
{
 MessageBox(0,
            "He who is rules by men lives in sorrow.",
            "He who rules men lives in confusion.",
            MB_OK|MB_ICONINFORMATION);
 return 0;
}

--------------------------

To compile it I used the following command line in the DOS Prompt window,

gcc -Zwin32 LaoTzu.cpp -o LaoTzu.exe

.... And, SURPRISE !!! it worked.

As you can see, I too had to do some fiddling around to finally to get it
to work.

Hopefully this will get you pointed in the right direction and get it
working.

regards, Martin


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Robert McNulty <bobbymcn AT www DOT the-link DOT net> wrote in article
<34B42E3F DOT 8EE5F94C AT www DOT the-link DOT net>...
> You heard the subject. I can't get the "Hello World" program from
> working. All I am getting is a "missing seperator" error. The code has
> not been touched by me or any one else since downloading this program.
> Tried:
> make
> make rsx=1
> 
> neither works. Any suggestions or further bug reports? I really want to
> program in C for Windows 95.
> Robert
> bobbymcn AT the-link DOT net
> 
>