Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 13:11:43 -0400
From: Billy Carr <bcarr AT dsm DOT fordham DOT edu>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: DJGPP

Hi.
Thanks for the timely response regarding the wildargs.obj question!

I think that it's great that there's a platform to generate 32bit,
console apps on a 16bit machine.  As a long time Borland user, I find
that being able to build one, yet DOS/WINDOWS doesn't allow you to run
it is disheartening (unless you're ready to graduate to 'DAYTONA',which
I am not).

Anyway, I find the migration difficult in that the steps for creating
an .exe aren't very clear...I see bit and pieces in various docs, but
nothing which says..."here are the steps that should be taken!".  Sounds
ridiculous, but migration is slow.  I complied and linked a mid-sized
app (about 20k lines of code over nine files) and the output was a.out.


When I ran d:\>go32 a.out, the program info output to stdout, as it 
should, but appeared to hang.  When I CTL-Z to break it, the message was
can't find main().  PLEASE TELL ME WHAT AM I DOING WRONG OR NOT DOING!

Oh yeah...the make file is nothing fancy or complicated!  A few '-D'
options along with some other compile options (-O -ansi -c) & the
last line is 'gcc *.o'.  When I write for Borland I would say
'bcc -efilename.exe *.o'.  This works fine!

I need somebody...HelP!

BWC.
bcarr AT dsm DOT fordham DOT edu

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