Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/26/02:42:53
As often, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> gave me the right answer:
>
> On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Koen Van Herck wrote:
>
> > does anyone know if it is possible to detect the installation path of
> > djgpp in a makefile ? I want to do the following:
> >
> > INSTALLDIR = a:/
> > DJGPP_PATH = ?????
>
> Every DJGPP program, including Make (if it is compiled with DJGPP) gets an
> environment variable called DJDIR which points to the top DJGPP
> installation directory, assuming that the machine where you run this
> defines the DJGPP environment variable (set DJGPP=c:/djgpp/djgpp.env) and
> if DJGPP.ENV was not screwed up by the user who edited it. If you cannot
> assume the above (i.e., you want your installer to work on broken DJGPP
> installations), then there is no way to achieve what you want. Otherwise,
> just say this:
>
> DJGPP_PATH = $(DJDIR)
>
> > install:
> > cp $(DJGPP_PATH)/bin/cwsdpmi.exe $(INSTALLDIR)
> > cp myprog.exe $(INSTALLDIR)
>
> Why do you need to copy CWSDPMI at all? If it's on the PATH, the stub
> will always find it. It doesn't have to be in the same directory as your
> DJGPP program.
>
I want to make a bootable floppy which contains all necessary files to
run the program. I have djgpp installed on different drives in
different computers (development platforms), but the floppy should run
on computers without djgpp (and without dos).
The absence of protection makes dos (djgpp) an ideal development
platform for hardware diagnostics.
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Koen Van Herck
Electronic Design Engineer
E-mail: Koen DOT VanHerck AT barco DOT com
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