Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/29/14:45:28
kosaku yui <k_yui AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
: I just downloaded djgpp. What is it! Is it C/C++ or totally different
: and independent. I'm very confused. I tried reading the readme.1st file
: but it's so very complicated. I unzipped through windows95. is that ok?
: How do I start? What do I do. What kind of stuff do I need before i
: start? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (breath in, breath out. Breath in, breath out)
: sigh. I don't know what to do. I have all the will to learn though...
: k_yui AT hotmail DOT com
Hello, there.
One great resource for learning djgpp is written by ... guess who ... a
team of DJGPP volunteers including the one and only DJ Delorie. Try:
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/ug/
where you'll see the "DJGPP Users' Guide" with lots of material
specifically written for beginners to the C language as well as DJGPP
itself.
I would say that to get started learning C, you'll need:
(1) A good book on ANSI C, for example the Second Edition of Kernighan and
Ritchie, _The C Programming Language_;
(2) A text editor or integrated development environment to write C
programs, for example GNU Emacs or RHIDE, both available as part of DJGPP;
(3) A successful DJGPP installation, plus knowledge of enough of what's in
the README.1ST and DJGPP FAQ to be able to compile the simple C programs
you write in the early part of your learning process.
Most respectfully,
Margo Schulter
mschulter AT value DOT net
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