Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:30:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Roger S Gay <gayr AT telusplanet DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 and "forcedos"
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Roger S Gay wrote:

> I just migrated to W2K a week ago, and am having no joy at all compiling cpp
> pgms using gxx. No outputs, no error messages, no nothing ! gcc with -lstdcx
> seems to work though.

Try using gpp instead of gxx.  It should work.

> Is this related to the topic of this thread (forcedos) in that gxx cannot
> make the call to gcc?

gxx *can* make call to gcc, but when gcc then calls cpp, the NT DOS
box crashes or otherwise misbehaves.

> I'm afraid I lurk in the djgpp newsgroup rather infrequently; my apologies
> if this has come up before but I would appreciate a pointer to a prior
> thread or workaround

See, that's the problem: we don't know about any workarounds.  Using
gpp, you should be able to compile from the command line, but you
cannot compile from Make or RHIDE or Emacs.

Someone suggested that using FORCEDOS might help.  However, it doesn't 
look like it helps, see the other messages in trhis thread.