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Re: [COLD] win32 port?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Dec 4 11:41:46 1996 )

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:34:07 -0700 (MST)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org>
To: "Terrence M. Drozdowski" <xymox@xymox.org>
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961204083537.26288Y-100000@ns.marion.org>

> Supposedly, if you have the patience, you can compile cold on win32.  You 
> need access to a unix box first, to build the win32 source files.  All 
> you need to do is get into a unix shell, type make win32, tar up the 
> resulting source files, then attempt compile/configuration in NT.  I 
> tried this once on an NT 4 beta box, with GNUwin32 gcc, but it failed 
> part way through.  I would imagine if you know your way around C well
> enough (I know basics, but most is over my head) you could kludge your 
> way through it all.  If you try it and have success, please let me know.

Yes, that is how :)

I started a Win32 port when I had a system here running Win95+VisualC and
the GNUWin32 stuff (I was working on getting it to compile in both).
However, the guy left and I havn't had the desire/drive to install the
same setup and work on it.  I do have Win95/Visual C nestled on a small
partition of my drive at home, eventually I'll get to it..  If you want,
compile it up and send me a log of all the errors--I can probably fix them
and send you a patch.  A few bounces back and forth like that should be
all we need to finish it up.

-Brandon