From: M Joshua Ryan Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: help newbie please Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:05:44 -0500 Organization: University of Missouri - St. Louis Lines: 25 Message-ID: <35DBBCB8.4615C448@admiral.umsl.edu> References: <6r3ga5$k9c$1 AT heliodor DOT xara DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: s1002145.umsl.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Are you working in dos-mode, a window, a shortcut, a batch file? The problem sounds like gcc cannot find your test.c file because it's not in the current directory or not in the search path. (I've tried numerous times, unsuccessfully, to put &compile into the context menu of my .c files). dazzee wrote: > I am experiencing problems on setup of djgpp. when i run this line > gcc test.c -o test.exe -lm i get this error > > gcc.exe installation problem, cannot exec 'cpp' no such file or directory > (ENONENT) what am i doing wrong? > > thank you dazzee > dazzee AT globalnet DOT co DOT uk -- M. Joshua Ryan Occasionally ostensible