RE: [Dev-C++] "Not found" problem

[Matthews <dem...@uw...>]

Have you tried manually changing your configuration file?  The only
drawback to this is that the file gets reset every time you close the program.

At 05:16 PM 07/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>I tried this as well, didn't help. I've installed Dev-C++ in at least 5
>different ways... I tried leaving everything to the default settings,
>and it didn't work. I tried installing it in a directory with no fancy
>characters at all, and only 8 characters long, still no success, etc.
>What bugs me the most is that I can't seem to figure out why it won't
>find the files, since I've already tried all the things I thought could
>fix it.
>And somehow it seems strange to me that it would be restricted by 8-char
>pathnames, since it's a Win32 app, and GCC is originally from
>UNIX/Linux, which fully supports long and weird pathnames as well. I'm
>beginning to think my WinXP is just screwed up.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthews [mailto:dem...@uw...] 
>Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 12:11 AM
>To: pd...@xs...
>Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] "Not found" problem
>
>
>You need to have Dev-c++ in a directory with a filename less than eight
>characters long.  This should solve all your problems.
>
>At 11:03 PM 06/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been trying to get Dev-C++ to work on my PC for a couple of months
>>now... trying each new version as it came out, but to no avail. I
>>installed it at work as well, and it worked perfectly. I have no idea
>>what could be the problem. Whenever I try to compile anything (any type
>>of project, doesn't matter), I get an error "not found", and the
>compile
>>log says, for example, the following:
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>Executing  make...
>>C:\\Development\\Dev-CPP\\bin\\make.exe -f
>>"C:\Development\Projects\C++\Console\Dirksen_ANSI_C\ANSI_C_07_MPC08\Mak
>e
>>file.win" all
>>C:\\Development\\Dev-CPP\\bin\\gcc.exe -c main.c -o main.o
>>-I"C:/Development/Dev-CPP/include"   -fexceptions -s -O3
>>-fexpensive-optimizations C:\Development\Dev-CPP\bin\gcc.exe: not found
>>C:\\Development\\Dev-CPP\\bin\\make.exe: *** [main.o] Error 127
>>Execution terminated
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>This is after I tried changing some things however. In newer versions I
>>saw you could specify the paths to the executables manually, so I
>filled
>>in the explicit paths, hoping this would finally solve my problem. The
>>Dev-C++ bin directory is in my PATH env variable, but that doesn't seem
>>to help either. I once tried copying the entire bin dir to my Windows
>>directory.. no luck either. I tried using entirely 8.3 (DOS) paths,
>>still no luck. Then I tried filling in the executable locations, first
>>using the normal path (one backslash as separator), wouldn't work. Then
>>an escaped path (double backslashes), still not working... now I'm
>>getting pretty fed up with my computer, for continually refusing to
>work
>>correctly, so I decided to finally ask the list.
>>
>>My system is (if this is even remotely relevant) an AMD 1GHz, 512 MB
>>RAM. Running Windows XP Pro with SP1 (this is likely to be important
>I'd
>>think). I have Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET installed as well,
>>and the entire MSDN library from Visual Studio 6... I don't know if any
>>of this could conflict. I haven't tried uninstalling any of those to
>see
>>if Dev-C++ would work then, cause Visual C++ is my primary IDE.... I'm
>>using Dev-C++ as an 'extra' IDE, mostly for when I want to work on
>>cross-platform projects.
>>
>>I hope anyone can help me with this... maybe someone else has had this
>>problem as well (though I haven't seen it come by the list yet). I
>would
>>really like to use Dev-C++, but right now I just can't.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
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