From: "Gil Myers" Subject: Re: Getting the djgpp C++ program to run! Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 32 DOT 19970709152523 DOT 0069ac8c AT jps DOT net> Organization: The Unknown Programmers Message-ID: <01bc8e7e$7af79280$fa8033cf@pentium> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.51.128.250 Date: 12 Jul 97 04:36:45 GMT Lines: 38 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Travis Mathison wrote in article <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 32 DOT 19970709152523 DOT 0069ac8c AT jps DOT net>... > OK. I just got this book called "WHO'S AFRAID OF C++?" by Steve Heller. > This book comes with a CD with the 32bit compiler in it. I copyed it to my > hard drive and folowed the directions exectly. I know I installed it right > but I cant find what icon\file starts the program up so I can write code. > This is urgent so if you can help me out I would appreciate it a lot thanks. > > Sincerely, > > Travis Mathison hmm.. DJGPP is a compiler. Greatly simplifying things, it just reads in a source file and compiles it into executable code. To write code you can use any text editor you feel like (I use RHIDE most of the time, but WEDIT that comes with LCC-WIN32 is another favorite of mine.) RHIDE and many other good tools, libraries, etc. are available wherever DJGPP is found. (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html is a good place to start.) Also, from a dos prompt, type "go32" or "go32-v2" and look for a line with 'version' in it. if the following number is less than 2.0 you really need to go to the site above and get the new version of DJGPP. (version 1.0 is no longer supported) Anyways, good luck, and I hope you enjoy DJGPP, it is a wonderful compiler.