From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: *** GCC will not compile, can not find "as"...
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:24:27 -0700
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To: Mike Ryan <mdr6 AT dana DOT ucc DOT nau DOT edu>
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Mike Ryan wrote:
> 
> Can someone help me out... I downloaded all the DJGPP required files,
> read the faq and can still not get it to work.
> 
> When I try to compile a simple hello world program, it says
> 
> gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec 'as': no such file or
> directory(ENOENT)...
> 
> If someone could let me know what I did wrong, I would appreciate it.

You most likely did one of two things wrong:

1) You didn't download 'v2gnu/bnu27b.zip' which contains 'as.exe' and
other programs.

2) You didn't set your PATH environment variable to include the DJGPP
bin directory.

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