Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:19:42 +0200 From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Message-Id: <199905251319.PAA08422@acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: compilation errors!! Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Organization: RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com [Please stop posting with a rubbish 'From:' field. This is violating the Netiquette (and some of the pertinent Internet protocols, too)]. In article <7ic4j1$bm1$1 AT hfc DOT pacific DOT net DOT hk> you wrote: > I then tried to compile the additional packages inside the archives. > But most of the programs , expert allegro, failed to compile. [...] > However, I have already put a couple of lines in the autoexec.bat file. Fact is, most of these lines are simply nonsense. I really don't see what might have made you think that 'gccinc' or 'gcctmp' might be variable names that are important to DJGPP, in any way... > including > set gccinc = c:\djgpp\include > set gcctmp = c:\tmp > set djgpp = C:\djgpp\djgpp.env ^^^ If that's a verbatim copy from your autoexec.bat, then that line is your problem. You mustn't use spaces around the '=' in a 'set' command. Write set djgpp=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env and watch the difference, after rebooting the system. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.