1.3 Installing
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The hardware requirements of C-- are minimal: a 386 or later cpu, at
least 1M disk space, and 4MB RAM. It may be installed on computers with
Win95 or later, or in a pure DOS environment. The basic package contains a
32-bit DOS version of the compiler. Both the DOS version, and a Windows
console version, which can handle long file names, can be downloaded free
from one of the following two sites:
http://sheker.chat.ru
http://c--sphinx.narod.ru
It is quite simple to install C-- on your computer. Let's assume that
you will be installing to the C: drive. Create a directory on that drive
called C-- or whatever you prefer (using the DOS md command or however you
prefer). Then download from one of the above URLs full_c--.zip and
ful_c--2.zip and unzip them into this directory. You may add the name of
this directory to the PATH environment variable in autoexec.bat. The
compiler is now ready to use. Either switch to this directory, or run
autoexec.bat so that it will be on the path.
The environment variable for C-- is set either from the command line or
by a batch file (preferably in autoexec.bat). This variable indicates where
the compiler can find its library files. For example:
SET C--=c:\c--\lib
The current version of C-- does not absolutely require setting the
environment variable. You may use other methods to indicate where the
library files are located (not discussed here).