Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:37:46 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Martin Berard cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Compiling CGI script under DJGPP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Martin Berard wrote: > 1. When I compile with the following: > gcc -o myscript.cgi myscript.c > two files are generated: > myscript.cgi and myscript.exe (different size !? the .exe is bigger) This is expected behavior. When you say "gcc -o something" and the `something' stuff does NOT have a .exe extension, GCC produces two files: one is named "something", the other "something.exe" (any existing extensions are removed from `something' before appending .exe). This is so Unix Makefile's that don't use the .exe extension still work, since Make will find the file it thinks it produced. The different size is because the .exe file has a small DOS program (called "the stub loader") prepended to it. This small program is needed because DOS and Windows don't know how to run DJGPP-style executables, so the stub does it for them. > The .exe seems to be runnable not the CGI (Bad command or file name) Also normal behavior, which is the other half of the reason why two files are produced. COMMAND.COM refuses to run a program if its name doesn't end with ".exe". > 2. When I start my script with my broswer it ask me if I want to download > it.. AFAIK, the CGI programs must be native Win32 executables, otherwise the Windows Internet software won't cooperate with them. Complain to Bill Gates...