Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/07/13/18:21:21
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Ed
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 16:13:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Edwin Phillips <flaregun AT strauss DOT udel DOT edu>
Subject: Suggestions
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On Wed, 13 Jul 1994, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> My suggestion:
> The further development of DJGPP should aim on making gcc available
> for WIN3.x, NT and Chicago (WIN32(s)) and making it possible to link to the
> WIN API libraries, either by supplying a compatible linker or by other
> means like converting tools for the MS object/library formats.
This sounds like a lot of work ;) It would be nice to be able to write
a DJGPP/Windows program, but I don't like Windows programs. There long
and messy and have a lot of "char far *"'s and "LPSTR" and that
nonsense. That's why I quit Borland and switched to DJ! If I want to
malloc(1M), I'll do it, and set a "char *" to point to it and use it!
One thing that _would_ be nice is an API that _uses_ the Windows calls,
but provides a simple programming interface. Like what libsx does for Xt
and Xaw.
>
> Also supplying good, fast, native implementations of the unix shell and
> text utilities is a task to be solved. starting ls in a dos box and
> waiting two to four seconds until the dpmi memory is allocated (these
> 2MB or something) is not fun.
>
I'm all for this! I hate not having a egrep or sed or awk. I know that
they all exist (somewhere), but they should be made part of the
binutils (contributed). All we need is to get sources and build them
using DJGPP, and put them in. Then we know that they work with the DJGPP
distribution, gcc, make, etc.
I'd even be willing to try and find time to give it a shot. As a
matter of fact I'm looking for "less", to port to the RS6K, which would
be a good opportunity to just go ahead and build it for DJ as well.
There has also been a lot of talk about recursive make's and memory
woes. I like the idea of modifying make to not spawn() itself, just
saving what it's doing and "starting over". Has anyone determined if
this is feasible?
Has anyone got a good "sh"-like interpreter that we could port for
DJGPP? Might be a good COMMAND.COM replacement (avoidance) to use while
developing and compiling. Or all the time for that matter. This would
cost some precious memory, of course.
Ed
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