Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:42:02 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: benny cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Installation problems (?) In-Reply-To: <34f011ce.0@d2o8.telia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, benny wrote: > I've tried to install djgpp, but when I compile I get a strange message: > > "C:\programmering\c\djgpp>gcc -c hello.c > gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory > (ENOENT)" Your problem most probably is that you installed DJGPP in a directory whose name exceeds the 8+3 DOS limits for file names, and your DJGPP environment variable is set to the long name. The DJGPP FAQ list (v2/faq210b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP) explains in section 8.1 that this doesn't work, and suggests ways to solve this problem. If the advice in the FAQ doesn't work, post here your configuration files (CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT).