Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:55:26 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Cannot open -lstdcxx
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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Young Fan wrote:

> I read somewhere that I cannot use an unzip program that supports long
> file names, and downloaded the unzip386.exe file, but that wouldn't
> work.

Yes, unzip386.exe aborts on NT.

> So I ended up just using Winzip 7.0.

Bad idea.  Your installation will never work if you unzip with Winzip
on NT.

> c:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: cannot open -lstdcxx: No such file or directory
> (ENOENT)

This is the first sign of the trouble due to use of Winzip: the linker
looks for a file libstdcxx.a, which exceeds the 8+3 limits of DOS file
names, and doesn't find it.

> How can I get rid of this problem?

Get the DOS version of pkunzip from SimTel and reinstall everything.