Re: [Mingw-users] Install problem with MinGW-1.0-20010608

[Paul G. <pga...@qw...>]

On 22 Aug 2001, at 9:44, the Illustrious Doug Eleveld wrote:

> I'm sorry if this question is too obvious
> 
> I appear to have an install problem with MinGW-1.0-20010608. 

	that release of Mingw is known to have a bug.  Thus the Win95 patch 
which came out shortly thereafter.

	(why don't we simply remove that buggy thing?)

> 
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-1.0-20010608.tar.gz
> 
> I unzipped it (with winzip, is that the problem?) to d:\compiler\mingw
> (I made sure there were no spaces in my path)  When I try to run my
> makefile I get the error:
> 
> gcc -c -Iinclude -Isource -O2 -g3 source/object/alert.c
> GCC.EXE: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or
> directory make.exe: *** [alert.o] Error 1
> 
> My path is:
> D:\CPP\DEPUI>path
> PATH=D:\COMPILER\MINGW\BIN;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\UTIL\NC;C:\U
> TIL\COMP RESS;D:\COMPILER\DJGPP\BIN
> 
> What have I done wrong?

	Nothing except possibly the fact that you are extracting to a sub-
directory instead of a root directory when the installation 
instructions

	Subdirectory:

		<somedrive>:\somedir\somedir2\

		somedir2 is a subdirectory.

	Mingw, if not installed at the root level (see below) will likely 
fail.  Afaik, this is a known problem having to do with how Mingw 
handles directory references.  I was also under the impression that 
this was specifically stated in the proper installation notes.

	Root directory:

		<somedrive>:\somedir\

>  I had a previous version of Mingw (I 
> forgot where I had gotten it, otherwise I'd use that) that was a
> couple of self-extracting executables, and there were mingw32.bat
> files.  This had worked fine.

	Not sure which versio of Mingw you are referencing above.  I think it 
is safe to say that you were probably using the legacy release of Mingw 
(Formerly known as Mingw32).

	I always recommend use the latest Mingw Release (1.0.1).  Follows is 
the URL for the project download page at sourceforge.net:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&release_id=15084

Mingw Release 1.0.1:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-1.0.1-20010726.tar.gz

	This version has the necessary modifications for the limitation of the 
Win95 machine already included and runs on Win95, Win98 and WinNT4 
without a problem after dearchiving and extacting to the 
directory/folder of your choice.

	I initially began to think that you had the wrong information, or you 
had not been able to read the installation notes.  Now that I think of 
it, however, I don't recall if there is a reference to this, so let me 
put it this way:  

	It is recommended that after you have downloaded and dearchived the 
distribution (Mingw 1.0.1),  extract the files to what I have described 
above as a "root" directory.

	Paul G.