Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/11/01:09:38
At 10:38 5/9/1998 +0100, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
>Mike Simon writes:
>>I'm sorry to trouble you but, I can't get make to
>>campile anything! Allegro, "Hello world" in c++,
>>anything. I have 8 meg ram, 486dx, 132 MB Hard drive,
>>Am running Win95, and Go32 -v says I have 5MB Ram and
>>4Mb of the other type, so that should be enough,
>
>No, nothing like enough. Sixteen meg is a bare minimum for any serious
>compilations, but the more the better.
>
>You need to edit the DPMI properties for your DOS box to make more
>virtual memory available (you will have to type 65535 into the field by
>hand, because win95 only goes up to 16384 in the pulldown list). See the
>djgpp FAQ for more information about how best to configure your machine
>for use with djgpp.
Note that this will also involve having that much free disk space. It may be
time for a bigger hard disk, and ideally more memory as well. :(
Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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