On 25 Nov 99, at 1:44, Scott Brown wrote:

I'm having trouble getting GPC up and running on my home pcs. It would make things very much easier if I could get some binaries instead of source code (as I haven't got the c/c++ compiler either!).

Does anyone know where I can find a download site for such things? Do they even exist?

I have compiled a Win32 version of the latest beta, based on the Cygnus Cygwin32 environment. This can produce both Cygwin32 programs (i.e., those that require the Cygwin runtime DLL) and Mingw32 programs (requiring no runtime DLL). There are some restrictions;

1. 'gpc.exe' is heavily hacked to suit my own requirements, which might not suit everyone else (e.g., to look for some extra environment variables, and adjust the internal parameter list accordingly, and if it is named 'mgpc.exe' instead of 'gpc.exe', to produce Mingw32 programs by default (linking to a special 'libgpcmingw32.a' instead of 'libgpc.a'). However, I guess I could produce a bog-standard version of 'gpc.exe' from the unhacked gpc.c.

2. The compiler has '/usr/local/' hardcoded as the GPC install directory, and so you will need to install into such a directory if you don't want any hassles.

3. The compiler is fine for producing console mode applications, but not for gui applications, because the handling of attributes is broken in the latest betas. Thus, if you are intending to produce gui applications, you may be better off downloading (from agnes) an earlier version that was released in March/April this year. That version contains some bugs which have since been fixed - but the handling of attributes is okay.

If you (or anyone else) is interested in the binaries that I have produced, I can package the lot and put on agnes.

Best regards, The Chief -------- Dr. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Email: laa12@keele.ac.uk Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/ Author of: Chief's Installer Pro v5.20a for Win32 ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/win95/apps/chief32/chief52a.zip