Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:51:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jeffrey N Woodford <jwoodfor AT unlgrad1 DOT unl DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP and NT Alpha
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On 31 Dec 1997, Jeffrey N Woodford wrote:

> Is DJGPP designed to work on a DEC Alpha 21164 running Windows NT
> Workstation 4.0 (Service Pack 3)?

I don't know anything about Alpha/NT.  Can it run binaries which were
compiled for the x86 CPUs?  Does it have some x86-emulator built into
it?

DJGPP binaries are compiled for x86 CPUs.  Unless Alpha/NT can run
such binaries, DJGPP won't work for you.

> I have downloaded it and installed it (as correctly as I can tell)
> but when I try to compile a simple program, I receive the "abnormal
> program termination" error.

Which of the DJGPP programs run during compilation causes this?
Please add -v to the compilation command line and post here everything
that is printed.

Also, please try invoking other DJGPP programs, e.g. go32-v2, and see
if they also fail in this way.