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Re: Testers wanted!

From Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc
Subject Re: Testers wanted!
Date 2014-05-03 10:03 +0000
Organization TARFU
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> "Nils M Holm" <news2009@t3x.org> wrote in message
> news:bsjmltF3vjcU2@mid.individual.net...
> > OK, Windows is not really supported by the configure/make infrastructure
> > of SubC!
> 
> Oh, OK! You mentioned 'Windows-386' and I thought it was.

I thought so, too. I tend to forget that Windows is not Unix.

> > There is a (probably outdated) WINBUILD.BAT in the root of the
> > SubC package which used to bootstrap the compiler on Windows.
> 
> > If you would like to give it a try, though... :-)
> 
> I'll have a closer look later, starting with fresh sources. (I've quickly
> tried it now and there are a few problems, but they need looking at in more
> detail.) But if this program is in fairly portable C, then it should be
> possible to compile somehow; problems with the automation of that is a
> separate matter.

The code itself is written in a strict subset of C89, except for the
crt0 module, which is in assembly. The crt0 is also the point which
most probably will cause trouble, because I have adapted it to the
new calling conventions without really knowing what I do.

> (Formats such as .tgz and .tar.gz are entirely unknown to Windows. External
> tools are needed such as '7-Zip' are needed, but are awkward to use. Windows 
> distributions tend to use .zip files.)

I see.

-- 
Nils M Holm  < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g >  www.t3x.org

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Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-01 13:41 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 17:08 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 17:15 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 18:14 -0400
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 06:23 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 06:13 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 06:38 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 18:23 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 18:42 +0000
              Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 21:02 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:00 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-03 08:33 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 13:40 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-02 22:02 +0100
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:11 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 10:22 +0100
        Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:03 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 11:02 +0100
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:58 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 12:44 +0100
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 13:42 +0000
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:21 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:03 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 12:33 +0200
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:59 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:02 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 13:12 +0200
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:18 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 16:14 +0200
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 14:28 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-04 21:55 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-05 07:07 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 04:13 -0400
        Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 04:18 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 06:52 -0400
            Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-07 14:49 +0000
              Re: Testers wanted! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 20:50 +0100
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-08 08:37 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-05-08 10:50 +0200
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-08 08:55 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 10:21 +0100
                Re: Testers wanted! George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-05-08 13:43 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-05 20:29 +0200
      Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 19:09 -0400
        Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-12 07:06 +0000
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-12 16:18 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-12 20:00 -0400
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-13 14:24 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-13 17:04 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-14 16:50 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-14 19:04 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-16 09:39 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-16 17:33 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-17 20:25 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-30 04:28 -0400

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