[1080] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Re: [COLD] Porting Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tue Aug 27 22:41:59 1996
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:29:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Stephen Smoogen <smooge@duracef.shout.net>
To: jefk@ten.net
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: <32238EFE.1670@ten.net>
My company ran into the same problem with our cross platformness. We were
able to work somewaht around this using the foobarwee.c => foobar~1.c
type fixes. We do not use gcc though so I am not sure if this will fix
things.
Stephen
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Jeff Kesselman wrote:
> Well, Ive been playign with the windows port.
>
> First problem is that gcc under Win95 expects 8.3 filenames because its
> basicly a DOS interface port of gcc (runs in a DSO box).
>
> This means, with our current file names, we will NEVER compile
> under gcc.
>
> Suggestions? I coudl change the names but upgrading is gonna be a
> pain. It woudl be better is we went to 8.3 for all cold source....
>
> Jeff Kesselman
>
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