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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>Install every package in v2gnu, and you should be set up.

Didn't install every single package from there, but tried to get every
one I thought was relevant.  Maybe I missed one that was important?
Took down most of them, but did not have the time to download
everything.

I did not miss installing gcc and gawk though.  They are there.
Script just can't find them.


>   The script was not written with portability to DOS/Windows in
>    mind.

Very likely.  When I build something that says it has a djgpp port,
seems to be working fine.  Funny thing, I have a program that I can
build with djgpp (and it runs fine) if I borrow the makefiles and some
other files from a mingw build, but I could not get djgpp to generate
those makefiles on its own.

Any tips on porting if configure script was not intended for djgpp?
Am trying to stick with cross-platform programs that I've managed to
get working on both mingw and Linux gcc, so they theoretically should
work on djgpp, unless there's some specific functionality missing.

Rugxulo wrote:
>"./configure CC=gcc AWK=gawk"

Will give it a try, although I did try export 'CC=gcc' in the djgpp
bash shell before running.  Didn't seem to make a difference.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>Windows XP does not need any Registry settings to support long file
>names.  The FAQ advice is for older Windows versions.

Are you sure about this?  Some of the programs I was trying would not
build until I switched the registry setting over.  I spent a couple of
hours debugging and realized it was using the short file name instead
of the long one at some point.  When it truncated the long file name
to 8.3, the tilde-number kept it from finding the file.  As soon as I
switched the registry setting, it was able to truncate to a meaningful
short file name from the long file name in the script and find the
files properly.  Don't remember exactly which part of the process was
having the trouble, but I do know I can't the script to work properly
without it.  I believe I was having some trouble with cp in bash and
long file names as well.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Laura
http://www.distasis.com/cpp