Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:00:49 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: WATT-32 library compile for djgpp In-Reply-To: <91od7b$ci7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> 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 Tue, 19 Dec 2000 unuroboros AT my-deja DOT com wrote: > I had a hunch it might be something like that, but I had no idea > where to look. The DJGPP FAQ list would be one place. Section 8.8 there seems to explain your case. > And I'm still too green to be able to dig into something like 'man > gcc'. You don't need to mess with the man pages, they are not the most efficient means of finding the information. I suggest to read the section in the README.1ST file named "Reading the documentation, or A Crash Course in Info", it lists some useful Info commands that will help you to find information in any Info manual, including the DJGPP FAQ. It also says what to do if you have no idea in what Info manual to look for some particular information. For some reason, these very useful features are completely missed by many users, who then spend many hours looking for the information (or asking here ;-). > By any chance is there an > O'Reilly (or similar style) book on DJGPP or (almost as good) gcc that > you would recommend to a newbie? And not just for the basics - > something that would have answered this question for me, too, so that I > wouldn't have had to bother the newsgroup? ;} It's called "The DJGPP FAQ List", available as v2/faq230b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP. There you will have 200-odd pages chock-full of advice, explanations, descriptions of subtle bugs and features, and code examples which will certainly save many of your problems. You don't need to read the entire FAQ (although it's recommended), but at least use the index-searching capabilities of any decent Info browser to look for solutions to problems you might encounter.