From: fwarren574 AT aol DOT com (FWarren574)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: 2.8.0 Install Problem
Date: 21 Mar 1998 07:01:20 GMT
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I am a newbee to the DJGPP world and spent some time this week down loading the
latest (March 1998) release of the compiler from SIMTEL.NET.  My intention was
to get it working from DOS on my 486 portable, so it was an install on to a new
machine.  I spent most of Thursday morning going through the libraries and
trying various approaches to getting the compiler to work.  What I finally
ended up doing was installing 2.7.1 on my system and then installing 2.8.0 over
the top.  This seems to work, but it was not obvious.  I found that the gpp.zip
file in 2.8.0 has a file g++.exe (not a legal file name and it is there for
sure).  I also noticed that there seemed to be missing include files in the new
lgpplib280b.  When I did a clean install, I was shorted a whole bunch of normal
includes.  When I extracted the 2.7.1 library and then overwrote it with 2.8.0,
I ended up with everything.

I finally got the compiler running with this approach, but it is still giving
me some complaints about templates.  Has anyone else seen these problems or
could give me some advice on how to be sure I have everything set up properly?

All help appreciated!

Fred