From: pjones AT acs DOT bu DOT edu (Peter Jones)
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 19:37:32 -0400
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: GRX installation help needed

Hello,

I am running djgpp 1.11 fine, and I recently downloaded cbgrx103.zip and
grx103m1.zip from the Simtel mirror on archive.orst.edu.  The files seemed
to unzip happily, into d:/djgpp/contrib/libgrx/..., but I don't understand
the installation.  The readme file says to run the make file in the base 
directory with "make install", but the make.bat file I got in the libgrx
directory looks like it understands several target options, but not "install".
If I use "make", it tries to work by invoking the real makefiles in the source
directories, but the make utility I got from the djgpp directory fails on these
makefiles when it sees the "!if" directives (I am using mak369bn.zip).  Many
of these I replaced with appropriate "ifdef"s and "ifndef"s, and the rest it
seemed to me I could just comment out for standard installation.  This worked
for a while, until the final command invoking "ar", where the make reported
that "ar.exe" was not found, although it is definitely in my path.  I suspected
that this might be a result of the exceedingly long command line required to
specify all the .o file to archive.  I manually did something like "ar rvs *.o"
oops, with the .a file name too, and this seemed to work, but I also noticed
that there were a bunch of .oo targets that were not built, and trying to
make other parts of the package manually I ran into other problems, like
"grxl.a" not found, and I started to think that I was just making a mess of
things.

Well, anyways, sorry for the rambling, but it seems like there are plenty of
people on this list using the grx library, so can anyone please tell me what
I am doing wrong, or what I need to do to get the automatic installation to
run smoothly?  I am particularly interested in the event package for catching
ray key ups and downs that I've heard mentioned on this list and the VIPER.GRN
graphics driver so I can use higher resolutions on my Viper board.  And, if
I can't get this working, does anyone know of a VIPER.GRD driver so I can use
640x480x256 with the original graphics library?

Thank you very much,

Peter Jones