From: softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Subject: Re: Newbie Installation problems
To: foster AT sde DOT mdso DOT vf DOT ge DOT com (Foster Paul)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 16:08:30 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)

> 
> I'm having problems getting everything to work properly.  Here's the modules
> i've unzipped and installed:
> 	djeoe112.zip
> 	djdev112.zip
> 	gcc260bn.zip
> 	gas23bn.zip
> 	bnu24bn.zip
> 	djdoc112.zip
> 	txi310bn.zip
> Iv'e followed the instructions in readme.doc as far as envirionment variables,
> etc.. but I can't seem to get any useful information out of the info.exe
> program, For example, when I start it up, I put the cursor next too * GCC and
> hit return, but all I get is "gcc/gcc.inf: file not found"  My other problem

If those mentioned above are the only *.zip files you installed, then
this absolutely expected behaviour: you have not *got* the
documentation, so how could info.exe be supposed to find it on your
disk? (The documentation for all the packages is in those ????dc.zip
files right there where you got the *bn.zip listed above, so: get
gcc260dc.zip, bnu24dc.zip and so on.)

> is I can't seem to get the cc1plus program to compile anything.  And since I

cc1plus??? if you really installed exactly those zipfiles you told you
did, then you don't have cc1plus.exe (it's in gpp260bn.zip!). And,
like cc1.exe, cc1plus.exe probably isn't the proggy you'll want to
call: use gcc.exe instead, it then calls cc1.exe and some others for
you, with tons of parameters passed you'll not want to remember
yourself. If you want to use c++ (and can live with the original FSF
bugs in cc1plus.exe, making it useless in my opinion), get:

	gpp260.zip
	lgp260bn.zip
	lgp260dc.zip

These files contain the compiler itself, the include-files and
libraries for C++, and this library's documentation.

> can't find any documentation online or in the FAQ, I'm stuck. Please help
> 
> Paul Foster
> foster AT mdso DOT vf DOT ge DOT com
> 
>