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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 01:00:51 +0200
To: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Re:  Allegro installation problem
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From: Georg DOT Kolling AT t-online DOT de (Georg Kolling)
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George Foot schrieb:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:03:04 +0100 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Ketra Kang
> (kfkang AT dmu DOT ac DOT uk) wrote: 
>
> : After unziping allegro, I run make as requested by Shawn Hargreaves.
> : But I got this message: "gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec
> : 'cc1plus': no such file or directory (ENOENT)"
>
> : I've got djgpp installed, with the variable djgpp.env set, and the
> : path=c:\djgpp\bin set in my autoexec.
> : And gcc.exe is there as well.
>
> : Do you know what is missing? thanx a lot for your help.
>
> If you read Allegro's FAQ (which is part of the distribution, so you
> should already have it), you'll see that prior to recent Work In Progress
> versions, Allegro needed a C++-capable djgpp installation to compile. This
> was because the sound setup program was written using C++. So, if you have
> Allegro 2.2, you'll need to download djgpp's C++ extensions (see
> readme.1st for details). Or, you can download the latest Work In Progress
> (WIP) version from the Allegro web site; be warned though that, being WIP
> and therefore pre-alpha, it's not `supported' software (although I have
> found the WIP versions to be generally reliable).

Another possibility, if you neither want C++ nor Allegro WIP, is to use
make -k, so make will just skip the sound setup program (which you don't need
to use allegro). This is what I did because I didn't want to download another
huge zip file