From: Andrew Cottrell Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: djgpp and allegro and windows XP problems Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:51:37 +1100 Organization: ECLiPSE Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <4c32c9dd DOT 0302041950 DOT 38f27dd3 AT posting DOT google DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p412-tnt8.syd.ihug.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1044427903 17195 203.173.148.158 (5 Feb 2003 06:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT ihug DOT co DOT nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 06:51:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >I was hoping I could get some help getting things running the way they >should. Basically I need allegro to run, regardless of the compiler. >I have a copy of Borland C++ but I am wagering it would be rather >difficult to get allegro running with it. You are correct if you are wanting to build a DOS app. >So, I have djgpp that won't run at all and I can't for the life of me >figure out why. I unzip everything to c:\djgpp and nothing. It won't >even start up. No error messages, just plain nothing. All that >happens is my dos prompt window freezes up and I have to close it. >I've been through most of the documentation, but I admit I am a novice >with these types of things and the majority of the instructions don't >make a lot of sense to me. Did you read the readme.1st? It indicates how you can compile a simple hello world and has info on IDE's. You have not indicated what you are trying to do. After you have read the readme.1st if you still get nothing then check the following:- 1) As you are using XP ensure that the DJ*.zip files, GCC*.zip, GPP*.zip are dated in 2002. If they are not then goto the neaest Simtel site and download them again. MS 2K & XP are not compatible with 95 at a very low level. 2) Check that you have all of the required zip files. If you don't know what you need chedk out the zip picker as indicated in the readme.1st file , its at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html 4) Check you have the DJGPP environment variable setup. 5) If you are using Rhide then download the 1.5.0 snapshot from 28-Aug-2002 from www.rhide.com in the snapshot section 6) After performing the previous steps you need to give details on what you are trying to do and the following results:- a) Run the following command "GCC --version" b) Run the following from where you unzipped the zip files from "dir bin\djasm.exe". This needs to be dated after 1-Dec-2001 and if not then go back to step 1 Andrew