Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:56:18 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Compiling Allegro under win2k.
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Peter wrote:

> Uum has anyone successfully compiled Allegro under windows 2000 ?. It seems
> to have a problem with the msdos window because it crashes during make

A known problem on W2K.  There's no solution or work-arounds yet.

> it still continues to make those obj files but when its supposed to make
> liballeg.a file it says:
> 
> c:\djgpp\bin\ar.exe : rename:  not enough memory

Another known problem, but this one is already solved in the current 
development sources.

The upshot of this is that W2K is not a good platform for DJGPP right 
now; I suggest Windows 98 instead.