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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 07:35:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: lgcc error with DJGPP on Windows 2000
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, P S wrote:

> I'm running DJGPP on Windows 2000. I have downloaded the latest patches from 
> Simtel and used unzip32 to unzip the files. The environment variables are 
> set properly (DJGPP=D:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV).
> 
> Here's the version information:
> >>>>>>
> D:\MyCode\mycpp>gcc --version
> 2.953
> <<<<<<
> 
> Whenever I use gxx to compile my C++ programs I get a 'cannot find -lgcc' 
> error.
> 
> So I tried with gcc and the strange thing is that if I just compile one 
> source it works fine. If I try to add another source file (with a dummy 
> routine) I get the lgcc error!

One possibility is that GCC runs out of free file handles.  See section 
8.2 of the DJGPP FAQ, and the section it points to for solutions.