From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: "installation problem, cannot exec `cpp'"
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:39:49 GMT
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:39:49 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 05:26:26 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
<kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, The awesome and feared Jim Meier commented thusly,
>
>> I'm getting this error message from GCC with a totally fresh install:
>> 
>> gcc -I. -Isrc -Iobj/djgpp -Wall -Wno-unused -m486 -O3 -ffast-math -fomit-fra
>> me-pointer -o obj/djgpp/allegro.o -c src/allegro.c
>> gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory
>> (ENOENT)
>
>Did you download the c++ compiler package (gpp*.zip) from the ftp site..?

to Grendel:
Allegro doesn't use C++.  cpp is the preprocessor; cc1plus is the
c++ compiler.

to OP:
Can you compile and run hello.c?

===== 8< =====

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  puts("hello world");
  return 0;
}

===== 8< =====
C:\PATH\TO\HELLO>gcc hello.c -o hello.exe

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