From:	G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
To:	"Johnny Rotten" <mikej AT cloudnet DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-ID:	<C12565D0.005C6CBB.00@vega.ads.it>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:57:23 +0100
Subject:	Re: DJGPP environment
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>I recently went to the DJGPP web site and got the zip files for C++.
>Unfortunately,  I can't get it to work right.  When I run "gpp" to compile
>my source code, my computer just sits there reading from the hard disk
>forever (it doesn't actually crash.)  Nothing compiles.

If you get no error messages then your configuration should be OK.

try to add -v switch and see what it prints...
>Do I have to make any special adjustments in DJGPP environment?  I'm
totally
>clueless.

Maybe not
>If it helps, here's the hardware I'm running it on:
>
>                            386 Laptop with 2 megs of ram
>                            no math coprocessor (I use an fpu emulator)

This can be an explanation!

You want to compile c++ with only 2 meg of ram... c++ compiler requires
lots
of memory. This means that the virtual memory manager starts swapping to
disk
because your phisical ram is not enough.

I have experience with my old 386. It had 4 megs but they were not very
good for
c++. When I upgraded to 8 megs thing were better of course, but it still
required several minutes for not-so-big programs.

You can try to improve your system performances with tips in faq list
(section
3.9) but I am afraid you will not be able to compile c++ with only 2 megs.

ciao
  Giacomo

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