On 25 Oct 97, Berk Ozbozkurt wrote to Paul Wankadia --
 BO>  BO>> Major disadventages of DJGPP are it is hard to configure
 PW> *I* don't recall having to configure anything.  Then again, I had to
 PW> wrestle for quite a while to get PUNIX to compile the way I wanted...
 BO>  Are we talking about the same DJGPP? i got all zipped files
The DOS port, by D.J. Delorie, of the GNU C compiler?
 BO> didn't work.. Then I tried to compile the source code with DJGPP 1.0
 BO> (which I could somehow got working after a great effort) but I could
 BO> not manage that either..
v2.01 worked pretty much straight out of the archives, IIRC.  Since I
installed it into 'C:\DJGPP', nothing had to be changed, apart from my
AUTOEXEC.BAT (to put 'C:\DJGPP\BIN' into the PATH).
 BO>  Well, maybe I'm so used to using Borland products which requires
 BO> virtually no configuration, that I can not configure even a simple
 BO> compiler.
Just get the binaries, next time ... the sources are not required ...
 PW> That's AT&T syntax ASM for you ... 'n' danb good it is too, IMO.
 BO>  For anyone who has used Tasm/Masm format for a considerable amount of
 BO> time, it is a quite uncomfortable style. Wouldn't mind much if I had
 BO> to use it only in inline asm bu object level incompatibilities force
 BO> to use that syntax for asm. modules that should be linked too..
I presume you've heard of "NASM", by now ... it's an Intel-syntax assembler
that can be used with DJGPP ...
 BO>  BO>> the licence agreement requires you to write either free or
 BO>  BO>> shareware programs only.
 PW> There I was, thinking that "Quake" was written with DJGPP...
 BO>  I don't have any simplest idea about Quake, except that it is a
 BO> popular doom type game; is it 'there you were' as 'a great game like
 BO> quake is free/shareware' or 'it is not free/shareware even thought it
 BO> was written using DJGPP' ?
Let's put it this way ... Carmack's made a lot of money out of "Quake", even
though "Quake" WAS written with DJGPP ...
... you might like to read the DJGPP FAQ, too ...
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