Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:43:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199711180543.VAA11152@adit.ap.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To: Guy Giesbrecht <guido5 AT chatlink DOT com>,
        "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: compiler can't find stdio.h
Precedence: bulk

At 04:18  11/16/1997 -0800, Guy Giesbrecht wrote:
>Hello,
>     I'm just getting started with djgpp under windows95 and everything
seems to be installed properly yet when I try to compile even the simplest
of programs, the compiler says it can't find stdio.h I've copyed this file
to what seems to be every pertinent directory, even the root yet the
compiler fails to find it. Anyone have an idea as to what I've done wrong?
The paths all seems to be set up right, autoexec and all that... 
Read README.1ST if you haven't. Make sure your PATH and DJGPP environment
variables are set correctly. If you can't find the problem, please post here
the following:
* AUTOEXEC.BAT
* Output of `gcc -v foo.c' (replace foo.c with your file)
* Output of `SET' (your environment)

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net



debugging format. The easy fix: Don't
do that. If you get the stabs patch (I think it's on RH's home page:
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho, or I can mail), then you can build GCC
with debugging. You probably want to use -O2 instead anyway, to make the
compiler faster.
>
>* if I just "make" and copy the resulting files, when I try to compile a
>simple case I get "file not recognized: File format not recognized"
I notice your file is a `.cpp' file. There is a known bug involving `.cpp'
files, but I'm not sure if this is it; try renaming it to `.cc'. Failing
that, compile with the `-v' switch and post the output. You can also compile
with `-Wl,--verbose' to see what the linker does, but please don't post all
of its output, it will be huge. Try to pare it down before posting.

Also, the GCC source distribution is not LFN-clean. This will probably be
fixed soon. I *think* you won't have to rename and such if you disable LFN
when compiling.
>REM Changes to cp/Makefile
>REM   add closing"'" to `echo $(PARSE_C) line 195
That is an actual mistake in the makefile. Since it's supposed to build with
command.com, just remove everything but $(PARSE_C) . Somebody came up with a
more elegant solution but this works.
>REM I don't know what the following line does -MDD
>ln -s /djgpp/bin/cpp.exe /djgpp/bin/cccp.exe
It makes a symlink (sort of) from cpp to cccp. That way, you can invoke the
preprocessor as either `cpp' or `cccp' but only use the disk space once.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net