To: Michael Feldman <mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP List)
Subject: Re: A couple of questions from a new DJGPP user 
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 08:14:58 +0200
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il

> (1) I'm trying to compile a program out of a book that uses "getch".
>     This should be in conio, which in djgpp just includes gppconio.
>     The program compiles but the linker reports that getch is undefined.
>     What is the magic to get the linker to find it?

getch() and other PC-specific routines are in the libpc.a library which
isn't included automagically on the ld command line by gcc compilation
driver (it only includes libc.a and libgcc.a).  So the ``magic'' to get
getch() is to include -lpc at the end of your gcc command line.

> (2) Just for curiosity, where is getch, etc., in standard (Unix) gcc?
>     The linker can't find it there either.

That's because there ain't no such thing as a Unix getch().

	Eli Zaretskii