Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 16:47:30 +22305931 (WAUST) From: Ron Grunwald Subject: Re: DJGPP Windows support To: SAMHAA AT esic DOT eun DOT eg Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu On Thu, 22 Sep 1994 SAMHAA AT esic DOT eun DOT eg wrote: > I have been able to aquire a copy of DJGPP version 2.6 from the oak.edu > machine. I have used GNU C before and I personally think that it is very > powerful and efficient. For that reason I was happy to learn from the > documentation that it now supports and runs under MS Windows. However I > have been facing problems in tring to run DJGPP under Windows. I have been > reading about the the limitations, but the only ones mentioned were in > terms of graphic support. I would like to ask if anyone else had encountered > other limitations since I have tried running an application that does not have > any graphics but did not succeed. > > > Samhaa > email: samhaa AT esic DOT eun DOT eg What sort of error messages do you get ? Perhaps you could explain how your machine behaves when your program is run ? I would be interested as well in what limitations DJGPP code has under the Windows operating system. So far I've found that I couldn't get the GDB debugger to work at all under Windows. It simply aborts with a General Protection fault. Regards, Ron. ******************************************************************** | Author.............. Ron Grunwald | | Internet............ rgrunwal AT bluering DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au | | Phone............... (09)273 8027 or (09)273 8468 | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Department.......... Information Technology | | Division/Faculty.... Operations and Systems Management | | Institute........... Edith Cowan University, Churchlands | | Location............ Perth, Western Australia | ******************************************************************** "I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem!"