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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: Please help me - I'm desperate!!!
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:25:59 GMT
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Steven,

Maybe it would help if you gave us a specific message you are getting.
I highly doubt that your computer just says "NOOOOOO!! - I will not
let you do that!"

Steven

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:43:06 -0000, "Steven Lewis"
<stevenlewis@birminghamhome.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>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
>
>
>