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From: "Steven Lewis" <stevenlewis@birminghamhome.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Please help me - I'm desperate!!!
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:43:06 -0000
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Hi,

Can anyone please help me with this programming related problem.  If you
can, I will be eternally grateful.

The problem is to do with makefiles.  When I first brought my Yaroze I
remember trying to compile demo programs with the accompanying makefiles
that came with them.  The documentation would state that all I had to do was
type 'make' from within the same directory.  However, whenever I did this I
would always get error messages thrown back at me straight away.  This
bothered me a little at first, but because I have brought CodeWarrior as
well, I just used that instead.  And before you asked, I followed Sony's
documentation to the letter at least three times, and modified the
djsetup.bat file as appropriate, but still I received nothing but errors.

Now, after a while I forgot about this problem, happily working on Yaroze
projects in Windows.  That is until recently, when I started getting into
DOS programming again under the DJGPP environment.  The same problems happen
now, even though I have downloaded all of the appropriate DJGPP files from
the Delorie site.  Whenever I type 'make', even with example programs, my PC
just says "NOOOOOO!! - I will not let you do that!"  Every time - I am yet
to get even one makefile to do as its supposed to!  As you can imagine, this
is hindering my DOS programming progress somewhat.

Please, please, please, can anyone out there help me!  I am really a very
desperate man.  I have read through loads of documentation, set up the DJGPP
environment like it says to in the Readme.txt file, and am now quite
literally at my wits end.  Just some suggestions on where I might be going
wrong would be great.  I'm sure I'm just overlooking some simple
configuration task, but I have no idea what it could be.  If it helps I have
a Pentium 2 350Mhz and am running Windows 98.

Thanks in advance.

Steven

website: http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~slewis
ICQ Number:    40785589