From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: PBM Utilities
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:40:41 GMT, Henry Nebrensky
<torty5737 AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:

>In article <8i7vb5$ieq$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>,
>  Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
>> Clive Jenkins <clive DOT jenkins AT celco DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>> > Can anybody offer a DJGPP-compiled port of the PBM (Portable Bit
>> > Map) Utilities that come with X-Windows?
>
>By coincidence, I've just convinced someone else on my project that TIFF
>is overkill and moving to PGM would make things easier for us

Actually, a binary format such as PNG would probably be better.  IIRC,
a PGM (portable gray map) file is really a C source file.

>I stumbled on a very recent distribution (9-1, May 2000) and just tried
>'make'; the source compiled OK but the linker refused to have anything
>to do with 'libpbm.so.9.1' as an output file (GCC 2.7.2.1 on DOS 6).
>This was 1 a.m. so I didn't chase it further...

DJGPP does not natively support .so or any other type of shared
library.  Tell it to use the `ar' tool (info ar) to make libpbm.a

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