From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Read Me Third: A Short FAQ List (weekly summary) Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 80 X-Trace: 9miuhhz3ao2GIa9jHrKX4MVBlHdpcsu2lrg0VVIatPQhINAjqUXKoES7g8gvtqvcGTJ/t0j+Moqy!rjtrCOXA4Aap9mT3frcA9qHLgGXkBSq/h91WnZS7B7iq79rzRE2w5R2Z4ucaqdyFkA== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:42:45 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:42:45 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Read Me First: readme.1st @ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ Read Me Second: DJ Delorie's Weekly Mini-FAQ post for DJGPP > Read Me Third: The Short DJGPP FAQ List Read Me Fourth: The DJGPP FAQ @ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/ This is not DJ Delorie's mini-FAQ list. This is a second list that answers the most frequently asked DJGPP-related questions on comp.os.msdos.djgpp and other NGs in the c.o.m.* hierarchy. [[[[[]]]]][[[[[]]]]][[[[[]]]]][[[[[]]]]][[[[[]]]]][[[[[]]]]][[[[[]]]]] Read Me Third: The Short DJGPP FAQ List Most Frequently Asked Questions in comp.os.msdos.djgpp By Damian Yerrick Because many people do not have time to browse through the whole DJGPP FAQ list, I created this extremely condensed version based on the most common questions on c.o.m.d. Read the original at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/ Read the latest short FAQ at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/minifaq.txt To be included in this list, a question must be related to DJGPP and discussed in at least five separate threads in comp.os.msdos.djgpp and/or comp.os.msdos.programmer. If a question is also answered in the full FAQ, these five questions must have come within five weeks. 1. Why DJGPP? 2. I used WinZip to... 3. I know C++. How do I enter my code into DJGPP? 4. C++: linker "cannot open -lstdcx" 5. Long file names 6. How do I do (graphics)? How do I do (sound)? What is "spilled"? 7. What is DPMI? 8. How do I make a GUI? 9. Help! Q: My program doesn't work. Can someone on c.o.m.d help? A: Try compiling with warnings turned on. For example, replace gcc hello.c -o hello.exe with gcc -Wall -W hello.c -o hello.exe If you can't find the problem yourself after making all those warnings go away, the general consensus is that we'll help if you provide these five things: 1. Version number of DJGPP, gcc, binutils, and any add-ons (Allegro, RHIDE, etc.) you are using. To see a version number, check the docs or start the program with -v 2. Your operating system (DOS? Sin95? 98? NT?) 3. The smallest source code fragment that produces the error. 4. The command line you are using to make the program. 5. The exact error messages you get, and the output from symify.exe if there is a list of traceback EIPs. Otherwise, we're not psychics. :-) If you have any questions or comments, post them at comp.os.msdos.djgpp *or* mail them to djgpp AT delorie DOT com; they'll get answered. If they're among the most frequently asked, they may become part of my short FAQ list. Damian Yerrick http://pineight.8m.com/ Looking for a book? Try Barnes & Noble. http://bn.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=9831085 Hate spam? http://www.mindspring.com/~lindellj/spam/ -- Damian Yerrick Mail me from the link on my web site: Pinocchio's Brother