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From: GKZ117@uriacc.uri.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: HELP! Installing PDC _or_ NorthC!!!
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Date: 14 Mar 91 18:54:39 GMT
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On 14 Mar 91 02:02:58 GMT <jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu> said:
>Hello.. Can anyone offer any help or advice or detailed sets of instructions on
>how to install the PDC compiler OR the NorthC compiler??? I have had PDC for a
>long time and have spend God knows how many hours trying to get it to compiler
>a program (never can get it to recognize libraries and/or includes).

     You must set a global variable to point to the include directory.  I
 can't be too sure how any one does it exactly, but DICE, PDC, NorthC and
 Sozobon C all put their includes in a directory called INCLUDE and you
 must do something like SET INCLUDE VOLUME:INCLUDE/ or something similar.
 The latest version of NorthC has adequate instructions on how to set it up.

>                                                                     It always
>comes up with things like "unknown symbol _printf"or whatever I was trying to
>do. I have the Amiga developer's disks with amiga.lib and all, I just don't
>know what to do with the files.
>
     Some versions of some cc front ends don't like the ARP shell.  Try
 compiling it "by hand".  If BLink is yelling at you, you might also have
 to set up your libs directory similarly to the includes.

>As for NorthC, the damn thing is SUPPOSED to work by itself... it comes with
>very explicit instructions for creating programs, and I get the same old
>yarn about _printf (after some messing around I got it to work until the linker
>but then it complained about _main).

     I have gotten NorthC to work, but you must use A68k's -g option, as
 someone else suggested.
>
>I am sorry if this seems vague. I obviously haven't done much amiga programming
>but I've done plenty of C programming on other machines and would love to get
>either one of the beasties working, and am getting very frustrated with how
>the instructions for both these programs make it look reeeal easy yet I can't
>even make either one give me the time of day. (figuratively). Any help would be
>very much appreciated....

 [Muncha-Muncha]

     When starting programming on the Amiga with PD compilers, patience
 is your most valuable commodity.

>--
>James A. Treworgy    -- No quote here for insurance reasons --
>jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu         jtreworgy@WESLEYAN.BITNET

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     F. Michael Theilig  -  The University of Rhode Island at Little Rest
                            GKZ117 at URIACC.Bitnet
                            GKZ117 at URIACC.URI.edu

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