Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:39:14 +0200
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> From: Paul Michailidis <paulm14 AT home DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:28:37 GMT
> 
> I went into the Allegro folder and typed this:
> make
> 
> ... and I sat for an hour.

Is it possible that you have some other version of make.exe sitting
somewhere on your PATH?

> Rebooted my machine and tried many different
> programs. Many different errors came up. Some came up when I tried it
> with rhide and other errors when I tried it in the dos console. Eg.
> "virtual memory exhausted." I tried compiling an example in dos, gcc
> ex1.c -lalleg
> when I pressed enter I heard the hard drive making sounds and then
> nothing happened. The prompt just came up again, as if nothing was typed
> in.

Please type this:

       gcc -v ex1.c -lalleg

and then post here everything that the compiler prints in response to
that command.