From: muller AT cerbere DOT u-strasbg DOT fr (Pierre Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Suggestion about DJGPP and Windows 2000 problem
Date: 23 Aug 2000 12:16:25 GMT
Organization: Institut Charles Sadron
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>> I was just wondering if anyone has tried using DJGPP in Windows 2000. I've
>> installed the latest binaries and discovered that unlike NT the long
>> filename support seems to work. C and C++ programs are compiling and linking
>> fine but there appears to be a problem with running make.(version 3791b). It
>> causes an exception to be reported from 'ntvdm.exe' and just terminates.
>
>This is a known problem with Windows 2000: nested DJGPP programs crash
>NTVDM if the nesting level is 3 or more.  That's why compilers work,
>but Make and RHIDE don't.
>
>We don't know about any workarounds; it looks like a Windows bug (it
>dies in its own code).  Try complaining to Microsoft if you believe it
>would help; or try to dig into the crashes and find a workaround.

  I have a small suggestion of test relative to that issue,
but I also have no access to win 2000 :(

  A friend told me that he had more problems with ld version 2.9.1
than with earlier versions (like 2.8.?), but it was on a Win98 box.
So I was wondering if DJGPP programs compiled with older versions
of DJGPP tools (2.01 or 2.02) also make Win 2000 crash 
at the third level !

  Using an older make and gcc version from simtelnet should be 
enough to test if some recent changes in the DJGPP library
might have a influence on the stability of DJGPP programs 
in Win 2000 OS.

  Eli could probably tell us which simtl version were compiled
with version 2.01 and 2.02 of DJGPP tools respectively !