Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:51:49 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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To: David Camp <Azgard AT btinternet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help me with downloading and running djgpp.Please.
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, David Camp wrote:

> I have no idea where this is going (I'm hoping it is going to a
> newsgroup) 

Yes it went to comp.os.msdos.djgpp as well as the mailing list
<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>


>anyway I have for many weeks now searched the internet in
> the hopes of finding a c++ compiler which all I want to do with said
> c++ compiler is to make programs on it 

Well you have come to the right place. DJGPP is great and I recommend it
wholeheartedly..

(> have never programmmed anything in mylife and so am not familiar with
> the ways of an ftp site and downloading stuff which could have beeen
> posted with simple instructions for simple minded people like but no I
> find a huge amount of blah blah blah posted and am at a complete loss.

Don't worry there are plenty of people to help you. If you have any
problems please contact <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> and there would be many people
willing to help you...

BTW if you want to get on the djgpp mailing list just send a mmail to
<listserve AT delorie DOT com> with "add djgpp" (without the quotes) in the
message body.


> Whoever reads this could they please find it in their hearts to
> releive me of my toils and please tell me how to (in simple english,
> please this bit is very important) how to download and install and run
> djgpp or any other c++ compiler which might more suit a simple minded
> person then please respond to this e-mail. 

Well I hope you received the mail that Janet posted to you. it was quite
informative.

The key is to use the zip-picker at <http://www.delorie.com> and download
the zips.

Then you unzip the zips to a directory on your harddrive. I use c:\djgpp

Please read the README.1ST in the djgpp directory. If you installed DJGPP
in c:\djgpp then the file would be c:\djgpp\README.1ST.

It contains the following 2 lines which you must add to your
c:\autoexec.bat file.

set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%

Afterwords you are ready to go.

BTW I think you should get RHIDE which is a great IDE for DJGPP.
Also I think you should look in the DJGPP FAQ which you download as
faq230b.zip, if you have any problems..

If you have any more problems by all means please post them..

Grendel


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