X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: blueice Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: TRYING TO MAKE EXE RUN ON FRIENDS MACHINE Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:13:28 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 64 Message-ID: <49131583-8529-401e-b263-3ab00e99ba23@v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <5fb78e93-bed6-46d9-85c8-a838e35b3d22 AT r36g2000prf DOT googlegroups DOT com> <9941ccce-87a6-4ace-9f78-9b15710643bd AT x8g2000yqk DOT googlegroups DOT com> <6e778b05-759f-4d34-8cdd-0a97afaac351 AT q30g2000prq DOT googlegroups DOT com> <655c5f45-555c-47fa-9c46-88fc752ce3fb AT l16g2000yqo DOT googlegroups DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.162.25.38 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1231107209 18200 127.0.0.1 (4 Jan 2009 22:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.162.25.38; posting-account=iiug8QoAAABEK5zEOxPRYhLRZJHiHvq6 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id n04MF8kn031611 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Jan 4, 7:51 am, blueice wrote: > On Jan 3, 10:30 pm, Rugxulo wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > On Jan 3, 10:15 pm, blueice wrote: > > > > On Jan 3, 1:58 pm, Rugxulo wrote: > > > > > P.S. Why are you running 64-bit Vista anyways? Unless you have / need > > > > > > 3 GB of RAM, I think it's overkill. > > > >  I am not running 64-bit Vista. There is site that allows > > > one to test compression programs. They have huge files and > > > compare various compressors. The machine uses 64-bit Vista. > > > I have tried to run my compressors. Which only are only made in > > > DJGPP GNU. They don't run. So I wanted to compile them in > > > some easy way so they could run on that machine. I don't have > > > a clue where the other machine is physically located. But > > > they can't run executables made with DJGPP. Again I have > > > XP not VISTA. > > > >  I do have BCC55 but not sure what kind of executables > > > it actually makes I have only used in on short programs. > > > I think Borland C 5.5 produces Win32 programs, which should work fine. > > > > My current compressors are all experimental. I have a > > > great interest in writing a better BWTS compressor since > > > I created a bijective BWTS but its all in DGJPP GNU C++ > > > I would like to test them with others who have an interest > > > in compression. > > > Since DJGPP uses stock GCC/G++, unless you're doing something really > > DOS-ish (non-ANSI), it should compile fine for other platforms with > > GCC, e.g. Cygwin or MinGW. > >  I got Borland to run some short easy programs. But when I > tired my basic simple 256 airhtmetic compressor it coughed > all over the place. Made many changes and it never compiled. > > I did download MinGW it finally compile with out errors. > But the code starts to run in command mode but fails with > a nasty windows popup. but it does run from windows except > I have no clue yet how to give the comman line parameters. > Any help wold be welcomed. > > Thank You Thanks to all here. I got it done and create the VISTA 64 bit binary with MinGW I bite the bullet and downloaded a vista version it compiled and run on the other machine the hard part was changing the PATH to use MinGW PATH=%PATH:DJGPP=MinGW% to go back to DJGPP GCC PATH=%PATH:MinGW=DJGPP% Thank You