From: G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it To: "Johnny Rotten" cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:57:23 +0100 Subject: Re: DJGPP environment Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Precedence: bulk >I recently went to the DJGPP web site and got the zip files for C++. >Unfortunately, I can't get it to work right. When I run "gpp" to compile >my source code, my computer just sits there reading from the hard disk >forever (it doesn't actually crash.) Nothing compiles. If you get no error messages then your configuration should be OK. try to add -v switch and see what it prints... >Do I have to make any special adjustments in DJGPP environment? I'm totally >clueless. Maybe not >If it helps, here's the hardware I'm running it on: > > 386 Laptop with 2 megs of ram > no math coprocessor (I use an fpu emulator) This can be an explanation! You want to compile c++ with only 2 meg of ram... c++ compiler requires lots of memory. This means that the virtual memory manager starts swapping to disk because your phisical ram is not enough. I have experience with my old 386. It had 4 megs but they were not very good for c++. When I upgraded to 8 megs thing were better of course, but it still required several minutes for not-so-big programs. You can try to improve your system performances with tips in faq list (section 3.9) but I am afraid you will not be able to compile c++ with only 2 megs. ciao Giacomo