> There are menu items in the bigFORTH start menu
> (build kernel/system/minos IIRC).

    On my system, Forthker.exe,  and bigForth.exe are
    command prompt console.

    xbigForth.exe gives me a bigForth dialog with just the system menu.

    How do I get to the 'start menu' ?

> Strange. Errors in the system include file?
> What cygwin version do you use
> (mine is not very recent, perhaps I need to update).

    Cygwin 1.3-17-1
    Bash 2.05b-8
    gcc 3.2

    (latest update from Setup).

> % gcc -O2 -DDATE='"07jan2003"' -mno-cygwin bigforth.c linker.S -o
> forthker.exe
>
> should work (that's single-quote double-quote 07jan2003 double-quote
> single-quote). The text itself actually doesn't matter at all, it just
> needs to be 9 charactes.

$ gcc -O2 -DDATE='"07jan2003"' -mno-cygwin bigforth.c linker.S -o
forthker.exe
In file included from /usr/include/w32api/objbase.h:57,
                 from /usr/include/w32api/ole2.h:9,
                 from /usr/include/w32api/windows.h:108,
                 from bigforth.c:15:
/usr/include/w32api/wtypes.h:97: parse error before string constant
In file included from /usr/include/w32api/objbase.h:59,
                 from /usr/include/w32api/ole2.h:9,
                 from /usr/include/w32api/windows.h:108,
                 from bigforth.c:15:
/usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:247: parse error before string constant
/usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:321: parse error before string constant
/usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:344: parse error before "cadate"
/usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:353: parse error before '}' token
/usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:894: parse error before "PROPVARIANT"
/usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:895: parse error before "PROPVARIANT"

    Thanks for your help.

    PhiHo.


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