From: "Böhme Uwe" <uwe AT hof DOT baynet DOT de>
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Subject: Re: rsxntdj setup:djgpp 2.8.1
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 23:15:52 +0200
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> gary wrote:
> >
> > i would like to know if rsxntdj can be successfully be setup with the
> > newer version of djgpp msdos system v2.8.1 i saw a mention here that
> > because of the new dir structure of djgpp, rsxntdj gets confused,could
> > this be got around by altering the djggp.env file to suit,i would try it
> > but if someone has tried it and had no success,then in that case i would
> > ask,is there free software to do windows programming with djgpp. if
> > rsxntdj can be used with djgpp how does one set it up,if someone is kind
> > enough to answer all the above it would be much appreciated thanking u
> > all in advance Gary Lloyd
>
> I got these instructions from Clark Case, and I can't test them, so
> don't know if they work.
>
> After much messing around, I got RSXNTDJ to work for
> the most part with gcc version 2.8.1. Here are the
> steps I eventually ended up following:
>
> 1) Follow directions in readme.exe.
>
> 2) Include windows.h in test program in readme.exe
>
> 3) In the specs file (for me, it is at
> c:/djgpp/rsxntdj/lib/specs), in the *link section,
> some changes need to be made. The origional read
> something like the following:
> *link:
> %{Zwin32: -Lc:/djgpp/rsxntdj/lib/all}
> However, during compilation, it seemed to be looking
> for a library that lived both in
> c:/djgpp/rsxntdj/lib/mt and in .../lib/st. I randomly
> chose to include mt, so the statement ended up
> looking like this:
> *link:
> %{Zwin32: -Lc:/djgpp/rsxntdj/lib/all
> -Lc:/djgpp/rsxntdj/lib/mt}
> I have no idea what the difference is between these
> two directories, except one, which leads to...
>
> 4)There was one lib that lived in the st directory
> that  wasn't in mt, and it was needed in compiling
> one of the samples. This was libcrtcs.a. I just
> copied this one into the mt directory.
>
> 5)To get the resource compiler to work, I added the
> following to my path statement in the autoexec file:
> c:\djgpp\lib\gcc-lib\djgpp\2.81
>
> Sooo, all is well in RSXNTDJ land? Not quite. I can't
> seem to compile c++ stuff under djgpp. In the c++
> sample, there is apparently an error in the makefile,
> so it doesn't work. And, if I change the name of
> test.c to test.cpp and try to compile it, I get the
> following error:
>
> Error: missing stab strings - not linked with rsxnt
>
> I compiled with gcc -Zwin32 test.cpp -o test.exe.
> This same error happened with some other c++ stuff
> under win32.
>
>         Peter  Allen

True story,
same for me and until now I'm still only able to make c compilation, linking
and binding to work properly.
All the messeges I placed here until now remaind unanswered.

Uwe