From: boyer AT cs DOT sc DOT edu (Daniel Boyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Help!!! can't make GRX20! Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 08:16:00 GMT Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science Lines: 40 Message-ID: <32cb6e2c.7547738@redwood.cs.sc.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: poplar.cs.sc.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp On Thu, 2 Jan 1997 06:03:23 GMT, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Daniel Boyer wrote: > >> >Please post the exact errors you received. The way to do this is: >> > >> > redir -o make.out -eo make >> > >> >Then post the contents of the 'err' file. That should tell us exactly >> >what is wrong... I hope. >> >> ok here is what was written to make.out when I ran it in the allegro >> directory: >> >> gcc -s -o demo/demo.exe obj/demo.o liballeg.a >> obj/demo.o(.text+0x105):demo.c: undefined reference to `joy_left' >> obj/demo.o(.text+0x12c):demo.c: undefined reference to `joy_right' > >Please do this: > > redir -o liballeg.lst -eo ar tv liballeg.a > >then post the contents of liballeg.lst. It seems that the library is >empty or incomplete, but I can't be sure without seeing the above output >("ar tv" prints the contents of the library). If I'm right, then the >problem happened in previous stages of your build process, and you will >have to unzip the sources from scratch, run Make again with the `redir' >redirection like John Aldrich told you, and post the log of that run, so >we could see what, if at all, exactly went wrong. I suggest you delete >the entire directory where you try to build Allegro before you unzip the >sources, so previous trouble don't mess up your second attempt. > >Keep trying, I think you will have your problems solved this time. Well I deltreed my allegro directory and re-decompressed the allegro archive and ran make and every thing worked. Thanks to all those people who helped me figure this out. :) Daniel Boyer