From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: absolutely beginner Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:18:21 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Message-ID: <5g63dt$qvv@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <3324E0ED DOT 5634 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> <33255DEF DOT 2DA7 AT cornell DOT edu> <332582e8 DOT 51843288 AT nntp DOT ix DOT netcom DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk Lines: 41 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp macko AT ix DOT netcom DOT com wrote: : Thank you very much for your help. : Of course I have read readme.1st. The problem is that these commands : work with certain files only, do not work with others. Unable to : compile for example the test codes those were recommended to us by the : instructor to try first. According to him these files can test if the : compiler is able to handle exceptions and templates, which is a must. : For IDE I downloaded and installed Emacs first, then Rhide. I was : unable to use emacs at all, rhide gives me different error messages. : E.g. I open q2.txt in rhide then try to compile it says: "Don't know : how to build q2.o from q2.txt. I guess, it is because it can not : handle *.txt, so I rename it to q2.c then the message is "error: : iostream.h: no such file or directory (ENOENT)". : Could you give me more suggestions, please. In addition to what Eli said, can I suggest that you check that you unpacked all the files required for C++ compilation, and not just those for C compilation? Specifically, to compile any serious C++ programs you need to download lgp272b.zip and gpp2721b.zip (IIRC), both from the v2gnu section of the FTP distribution. If you have already done this, I suggest that you get hold of John Aldrich's DJVERIFY, which is a utility that checks your installation for common errors and produces a report you can post here which will give readers more information about your system setup, so that they can identify the problem more easily. ftp ftp.delorie.com cd /pub/djgpp/alpha get vrfy033a.zip It is in alpha at the moment, and some features don't work, but it will still check the most common problems and produce a report. If you don't want to or can't download this, you can use RHIDE's Bug Report (on the left-hand menu) to generate a similar report, although this won't attempt to troubleshoot the problem for you. -- George Foot Merton College, Oxford