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From: arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Manx C from harddisk?
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Date: 21 Dec 88 17:29:58 GMT
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Keywords:Manx, Aztec C, harddrive


I have been installing Manx c compiler on my harddisk, and I cannot seem to 
get it right.  (I was so furious last night that I waited until morning to 
compose this question.)  What I tried to do is install the disks named SYS1
and SYS2 as subdirectories in a directory to work on manx c in.  I changed
the original disk based startup file to assign these names (SYS1: and SYS2:) 
to the subdirectories and execute this file before I do anything else.  I 
did not change anything else.  The result is that things do not work quite 
right (well, I can compile a program to print "Hello, world", but I really 
wanted to do a little more.)  I have tried to compile some of the examples on
the disk SYS2, but beep.c gives all kinds of pointer/integer errors  and leo.c
compiles and works but will not quit - when killed by clicking in the general
vicinity of the close gadget, the display stops, but it keeps a shell and will
not give it back until the machine crashes.

I think I have two problems:
	I may not have assignments made correctly so that various libraries
	cannot be found - although I do not get error messages about this.
	So, I do not trust my initialization script.  (Note, for example, I 
	do not have an s or c directory in the directory that I made for C 
	programming - I really did as little as I said I did.)

	Second, I may be making mistakes with complier and linker options. 
	(Well, probably I am.)  But, if I could trust my setup, I could probably
	figure these out - like any good monkey typing the Encylopedia 
	Britannica.

I would greatly appreciate any hints about a correct - and efficient while
we are at it - setup for using Manx C from a hard disk under 1.3.

Pat Palmer  email:  ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu