From: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Running DJGPP from a CD-ROM-drive
Date: 30 Mar 2000 13:11:43 GMT
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Alex Gevatter <alex AT gevatter DOT de> wrote:
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Please don't do this. Switch of that 'vcard' nonsense and save some
bandwidth.

> Is it possible to run the GCC-Compiler from a CD-ROM-drive (without
> any installation on harddisk)?

I think so. Haven't tried it, but there's no reason for it not to
work, either.

> I tried this and had also set PATH and DJGPP in the AUTOEXEC.BAT to the
> corresponding path on the CD-ROM-drive, but GCC hangs up. Why is this
> so? Does it want to write something in the DJGPP/TMP-directory?

If you have neither edited the distributed DJGPP.ENV, nor set the
environment variable 'TMPDIR': yes. And that may well be your problem.
Point 'TMPDIR' to an existing directory (c:\temp, e.g.). For a beginning,
you may just

	set TMPDIR=%TEMP%

as TEMP is set in all partly modern Windows machines, already.
-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.