[1084] in Coldmud discussion meeting

Re: [COLD] Porting Woes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Aug 28 16:18:41 1996 )

Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:21:25 -0700
From: Jeff Kesselman <jeffk@ten.net>
Reply-To: jefk@ten.net
To: coldstuff@cold.org

Terrence M. Drozdowski wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
> 
> > 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....
> >
> > Uhrm, my original compile compiled everything with gcc in bash up to
> > net.c, where, it bombed on some network stuff I've since finished.  I
> > never did go back for a second attempt.  We never had any problems with
> > filename lengths.. (perhaps bash was doing something?)
> >
> > -Brandon
> >
> 
> Perhaps he's not using win32bash...  I'll give it a try on an NT 4.0 box
> this week and report back here...

Ive been unable to FIND win32bash.
Can someoen make a suggestion?
Im workign under Win95 btw not NT.
In the normal Dos shell, and every shell I've tried, i have the same
problem.  It seems to be mostly with include file names.

JK