X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3C5DA360.4CECA775@earthlink.net> From: Martin Ambuhl Organization: Nocturnal Aviation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,de-CH,fr,ru,zh-CN,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: newbie question References: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E0D3427 AT s5-ccr-r1 DOT ccrs DOT nrcan DOT gc DOT ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 20:54:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.26.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT earthlink DOT net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1012769643 165.247.26.69 (Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:54:03 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:54:03 PST X-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:54:02 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Brooks, Rupert" wrote: > > Hi, > > Looking for an alternative to Cygwin, I downloaded DJGPP the other day. I > believe that I have installed it according to the instructions but I am > having trouble compiling things that used to compile properly under Cygwin. > > Basically the linker is unable to find the library containing Assert. There is nothing called "Assert" in C or C++. There is a macro "assert(arg)", defined in (or for C++). It is not in *any* library if you are using any implementation of C or C++. As a macro, it _must_ be visible at source level. If you are using some other language, all bets are off. -- Carius est nobis flagellari p doctrina quam nescire. [leofre ys us beon beswungen for lare thaenne hit ne cunnan.] - MS Cotton Tiberius A, xv, fol. 60v (British Library)