Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 04:58:58 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: kalum AT roadrunner DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com cc: BARRYWISBEE AT cs DOT com Subject: Re: Installation Problems In-Reply-To: <200007091722.UAA09780@mailgw1.netvision.net.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, The awesome and feared Eli Zaretskii commented thusly, > > From: BARRYWISBEE AT cs DOT com > > Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:27:12 EDT > > > > This weekend I tried to install DJGPP on my computer. I downloaded and > > unzipped all the files that I needed into C:\DJGPP. I then went into Autoexec > > bat to set the DJGPP environment variable. When my computer restarted, I > > tried to load the C++ compiler by typing in gcc at the c:\DJGPP> prompt. I > > then received an error message saying that there was a load error and that I > > needed to get CWSDPMI*b.zip. I have Windows 98 and I know that DPMI is not > > required since Windows already provides this service. > > The solution is simply to run DJGPP by opening a DOS Box on top of > Windows (click START, then choose Programs->DOS Prompt), without going > to DOS Mode. It would be even better IMHO, if you download the CWSDPMI DPMI server from the same place that you got DJGPP, this will enable your programs to run in DOS, and you can add it if you distribute your programs to others. Also CWSDPMI is much better than the filthy windoze DPMI server because CWSDPMI can catch a lot more bugs in your program. So overall I think that getting CWSDPMI is a good idea. Please note that you will only need it if you run your programs under DOS or where there are no DPMI services provided.. Grendel Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)