From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RHIDE 1.1 under MS-Windows 3.11
Date: 14 Mar 1997 05:06:21 GMT
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Steven Burrows (steve AT poota DOT dungeon DOT com) writes:
> Folks,
> 
> I have a problem with RHIDE under MS-Windows. When I select Build All
> from the compile menu RHIDE terminates. It works OK if I use Compile, or
> Link, it is just Build All that gives me a problem.
> 
> I think this must be a problem with my MS-Windows or dosprmpt.pif
> configuration - any suggestions?

I'm not sure. When I use RHIDE in Windows 95, I can't compile, only work
on source, but I have isolated it as memory problems. For some reason
RHIDE and other DJGPP progs only seem to use one meg of disk space for
swap in Windows, even though I have seventy meg free with and without
windows on that drive. (The Windows swap file is permanent, 20 meg, and on
the other hard drive, so it isn't eating up the disk space for DJGPP's
swap.) As a result I only have 5-6 megs available. Ironically, I only need
seven or eight since I rarely get swap activity in DOS compiling in RHIDE,
where I have all physical RAM (8 meg) free.
In any case, my symptoms are: compile from RHIDE, it just says in the
message windows
Compiling blahblah.c
There were some errors
without any message of what the errors are (whether this is a bug in RHIDE
or a bug in GCC I don't know). If I shell to DOS from RHIDE and gcc, or
gxx, I get Load error: no DPMI memory. Strange given there are about six
megs of DPMI memory, less RHIDE's 300K, which should actually be paged
entirely to disk during a shell(!), and the 40K max of source code in
editors (which should also be paged...a DJGPP app does page out its stack
and heap as well as code entirely, when shelling, doesn't it?)
If I gcc from a DOS prompt without RHIDE it works fine, and I never have
trouble with Windows not resident.

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