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I've just downloaded GNU gcc, and have been trying for a couple of
days to install it into DOS (hopefully so I can use it in a DOS window
in Windows).

I've uncompressed the installation bits onto a floppy disk, and it
creates all the files in the right directories on my hard disk.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

First, when I try to run it from a DOS window in Win95, it tells me I
have to run it in DOS mode. This is surprising in and of itself, since
I had gcc installed before, and it didn't have a problem running under
Windows. 

Anyway, I move into DOS mode, and try to compile something. It crashes
with a conflict with EMM386.exe, and I have to reboot.

I then reboot *without* loading in emm386, and try to compile a test
program (that just prints "hello"). It runs through the various stages
and crashes at the linker.

Can anyone help me with this? Is there anyone out there who's been
successful in this attempt? This is even more irritating than usual
for me, since I did have this installed before, and I can't seem to
follow the same steps I did last time (when I had no problems at all).

By the way, the version of gcc is 1.36, in case that means anything.

Thanks in advance for any tips at all,


Mark Higgins                    |    Queen's University Astrophysics
mark@astro.queensu.ca           |    Kingston, Ontario, Canada
http://astro.queensu.ca/~mark   |

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