Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:57:46 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: TUNNEL <yonir AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Please Help, I can't compile!!
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On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, TUNNEL wrote:

> Well, I have a problem, I want to compile several source files, the author
> suggests to do it using MAKE ALL after prompt but everytime I do it I get a
> message like this:
> 
> "c:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: cannot open -lg++: No such file or directory (ENOENT)"
> 
> Seems that 'something' (sorrry, I'm not a computer wiz) called -lg++ is
> missing in the DJGPP directory, am I right?.

The linker looks for a library called libg++.a.  In the DJGPP port, it
is called libgpp.a, since DOS doesn't allow a `+' in file names.

So the solution is to edit the Makefile and replace -lg++ with -lgpp
(that's a lower-case ell after the dash, not the digit one!).