Thread: exe file workin on one PC but not on another?

Hi!

I made a game in C using graphics recently. It works perfectly alright on my PC but when I mailed it to my friends, on their PC the exe file is not working, its giving "BGI error:Graphics not initialised".

As far as I know while initialising using initgraph we can write in two formats:

int gd=detect,gm;

initgraph(&gd,&gm,"c:\\tc\\bgi");

OR

initgraph(&gd<&gm," ");

but my compiler does not accepts this second option.On doing so it gives me the same error of "BGI error:...." .

Is this in any way related to my problem?
If my friends do not have Turbo C++ will they not be able to run this .exe file?
Infact all my friends have Turbo C++ yet this .exe file is not working on their PC.

What is the reason?
I am sure I'll get some solutin to my problem soon through you people.

Aarti

There are two ways around this:

• Copy the correct BGI driver into the correct directory on the other system.
• Use the included utilities with TC that allows you to add the correct BGI driver to one of the linked libraries - thus the host computer does not need the BGI file because it is included in the link. Check your help file from within the Turbo C++ IDE - start with initgraph() and link from there - you should find it easily.

Roger.

Haven't used the thing in so long I forgot what it was called. Thanks for the clarification WaltP.