From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: [Help] [DJGPP] [CWSDPMI] "16-bit DPMI unsupported." Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 11:25:25 -0500 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <34AA71F5.5D3A@cs.com> References: Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp219.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Kjetil Furnes wrote: > > Hey. > I just installed DJGPP, but I seem to have a problem using gcc. > It seems, whenever I try to compile something with gcc, I get > the message: > "16-bit DPMI unsupported." This is almost universally caused by invoking DJGPP programs through utilities used by another compiler, such as Borland, which use a 16-bit DPMI host. 16-bit and 32-bit DPMI are fundamentally incompatible, so such attempts will always fail. The most common cause of this problem is using 'make.exe' from Borland. Check your PATH to see if the 'bin' directory of another compiler is present before your DJGPP 'bin' directory. If so, move the DJGPP 'bin' directory ahead of the other one. Additional information can be found in chapter 6.7 of the DJGPP Frequently Asked Questions list (v2/faq210b.zip from SimTel or online at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/). hth -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "Deductive logic is tautological; | | aka Fighteer I | there is no way to get a new truth | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | out of it." | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------