From: Andrew Cottrell Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP and Windows 2000 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:42:58 +1000 Organization: The Internet Group (Sydney) Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <09D1E9BD9C30D311919200A0C9DD5C2C03E08992 AT mcaexc01 DOT msj DOT maxtor DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p410-tnt2.syd.ihug.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: bugstomper.ihug.com.au 997436870 13007 203.173.131.156 (10 Aug 2001 09:47:50 GMT) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Guys, There is allot of testing to be done on Windwos 2000 and there is still allot of issues to be resolved. There has been allot of progress over the last 6 weeks. My personal opinion and gut feel is that it may take another 2-3 months before a working version of DJGPP and packages would be done. It will in all probabilityu not be the same stability as the exisitng DJGPP 2.03 is under 9x as this has taken a few years to get to this state with allot of hard work by allot of people. (I have only started testing and helping out since I moved my main PC to Win 2K from 98. Charles, Andris, Eli & Mark when readind the info below please remember some of the emails sent about the Win 2K issues and how complex they are and how long it has taken to get to the stage we are now at!!! At this point in time if you would like to help out and you have enough skill and knowledge to be able to re-build DJGPP CVS LIBC, GCC 2.9.5.3 and Bash 2.05 beta then please keep readin otherwise please wait until a version of DJGPP is released that fully works (100% with LFN, nul etc etc) on Windows 2000. DJGPP support for Windows 2000 is not at a stage where it is advisable to use or try to use without skills to re-build various DJGPP & GNU packages, unless you only need something simple. The issues that are left are starting to become very complex and it starting to take allot of time to figure out what is going on. If you feel like a challenge and would like to help solve some issues then go and get the latest DJGPP CVS libc from http://www.ludd.luth.se/~ams/djgpp/cvs/ and compile this on your Win98 box along with the GCC comiler. At this point in time if you can recompile the packages and would only like to test DJGPP on Windows 2000 then you to can be a big help in testing as we need testers. To be able to help unfortunatly at this point in time you will need a Win 9x box and a Win 2000 box or setup dual boot on the one PC, but I think you will go nuts if you do use duial boot as you will compile ion Win 98 then have to re-boot to test on Win 2000. If you still want to help out or would like to know what the current status is with DJGPP then go and subscribe to the djgpp-workers list at www.delorie.com. If you can complie LIBC, GCC etc then send me an email and I will be able to send you info on how to get to the next stage. This will be a rocky road and you will crash and burn a few times, but we will get over the finish line at some stage. Regards, Andrew >I might be able to help, but I can't spend a lot of time on it because I'm >doing this at work, and I have a specific project to work on. >I'll help however I can. >The problem I'm having is launching Rawhide. DJGPP tells me the DJDIR >variable is not set and that it is a fatal error. >I have the DJGPP env set,as well as adding djgpp\bin to my path.