From: "Stephen Kodat" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: Problem with Allegro Examples Lines: 21 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.165.37.60 X-Trace: news12.ispnews.com 912494184 208.165.37.60 (Tue, 01 Dec 1998 01:36:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 01:36:24 EDT Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 01:36:24 -0500 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ... > >> > why is it that when I've tried to run the compiled examples >> > provided with Allegro in a DOS box under Win98, I usually, but >> > not for every example, get the error message "Program too big to fit in >> > memory." [Text deleted] >The usual reason for getting such messages is that you are trying to run >something that isn't a .exe program. Like if you say for example >"gcc -c foo.c -o foo.exe" and then try to run the ``program'' foo.exe. Thank you, now I have some clue as to what's going on, although I followed the 'readme' included with allegro and compiled everything with the 'make'. It seems to me that all the included examples were intended to be executable programs, but I don't see why the great majority didn't turn out that way. Maybe I'll try reinstalling from scratch.