From:	janet AT olympia DOT whoi DOT edu (Janet J. Fredericks)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	just 'bought' djgpp/ porting unix code
Date:	4 Sep 1998 19:20:17 GMT
Organization:	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Distribution:	usa
Message-ID:	<6spehh$64v1@dilbert.whoi.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host:	olympia.whoi.edu
Keywords:	djgpp,unix,windows98
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

I am porting code from unix to windows98. I just
bought the CD-ROM from Walnut Creek with the djgpp.
(Thought there might be some better documentation,
but there wasn't any.)  Anyways, so far after the
initial installation and a couple of hours of nosing
around the documentation, I'm not even
able to compile hello.c.  (It says it cannot find the
stdio.h file.  Now a newsgroup-advisor told another
newsgroup-seeker that the problem could be solved by
seting LFN=y in the autoexec.bat.  But, in the faq 
it says to set LFN to n.)  Anyways, as a non-windows
person:

1) where should variables be set 
	a) in DJGPP.ENV or AUTOEXEC.BAT
		(btw does .ENV have to do with the
		mystical registry?)

2) since my code has no LF, do i need to put them into 
	the code?  do i need to write a script or does
	one come with djgpp?

3) what about the makefiles?  do i need backslashes and c:
	around all my file references?  minimally, i assume
	i need to change my executable names to prog.exe from prog
	or does djgcc do this for me?

I may have been mistaken in choosing djgcc, i thought it 
would be better than cygnus' gcc because it would do more of
the conversion for me.  

4)  once i write & compile these vanilla programs (no irq's or
	other nasty stuff), do i need to specifically run the
	CWSDPMI or is that something that's incorporated into
	windows98?

I saw a line that looked encouraging (porting unix code) in the www.delore.com/djgcc/ug
section, but no link activated (yet?).  Is there a draft anywhere?

Thanks in advance.

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*    Janet Fredericks (jfredericks AT whoi DOT edu) *
*     Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution   *
*           Woods Hole MA (USA)              *
*              508-289-2573                  *

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