Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 08:47:05 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Jeff" <jlindsey AT digipen DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 03:56:52 GMT
> 
> Is it possible to use DJGPP on Windows 2000?  I tried installing it, but
> when I got to 'make'ing Allegro, it was disatster.

Windows 2000 introduced incompatible behavior in many system calls
that can at best be regarded as weird behavior if not as blatant
bugs.  Those issues make the stock distribution of DJGPP almost
unusable for serious development on W2K.

Work is under way to work around those problems.  You can find the
results here:

   http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm