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Subject: Re: Quake source, DJGPP 2.00
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:10:03 GMT
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:44:54 +0200, "Christian Werle" <shadax AT gmx DOT de> wrote:

>Hi everyone
>
>I'm not sure if anyone already posted something about compiling the Quake
>source code, since i'm new to this list.
>
>Is it possible that i need to have djdev 2.00 in order to get a working
>quake.exe for dos? It compiles well with even the latest gcc and djgpp but
>then the compiled .exe often crashes with an error, and sometimes prints all
>cpu registers to screen.

There is documentation on how to compile Quake under DJGPP at
http://www.quakesrc.com/.

You might also want to compile Quake with the '-g' switch, and run symify on the
register dump.  

>I contacted someone who has the same problem and he said it could be because
>the original quake.exe was compiled with an earlier libc version (i suppose
>it must have been the one that came with v2.00).
>But where can I find djdev 2.00 ?? Every ftp server only has 2.01 and higher
>but no 2.00...

For me, it compiles and runs cleanly under 2.03.  I'd recommend trying to symify
the dump to find the location of the crash.  

>Has anyone encountered the problem that i describede here?
>
>


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