Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/16/01:30:22
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | RSXNTDJ and export libs...
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From: | frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French)
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Message-ID: | <34befb68.0@news.cadvision.com>
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Date: | 16 Jan 98 06:17:12 GMT
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Organization: | CADVision Development Corporation (http://www.cadvision.com/)
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Somebody awhile back had suggested that for a DJGPP Winsock implementation,
why not just use RSXNT and make an export lib of WSOCK32.DLL. I wish I could
remember who this was. At any rate, I'm thouroughly tuckered out trying to
get LIBWSOCK to work, although it did (more or less) perform as expected it
does not seem particularily stable and from what I gather it will not
function at all with Winsock 2.0, which is really unfortunate. Now my
question;
I have made a LIBWS32.A from WSOCK32.DLL (right, as if THIS were the hard
part) and now I'm just wondering, what I need to do in order to use this, if
it's possible. The RSX documentation states that socket implementation is in
an early alpha stage (which is no good) and to use WinSockets. This is a
commercial (albeit reasonably priced at 40$US) lib and understandably (I
hope) I'd really like to get a free solution. I found a DJGPP+RSXNTDJ+DX5
package out there, I was very impressed. So it's a possibility that I could
just use DirectPlay since someone else has already done this and it will
accomplish what I want (and perhaps with less pain in the long run, anyways)
What else. Oh yes, Allegro. Is it still possible to use Allegro with RSXNTDJ?
I assume I would have to make it a Win32 console app, this of course is
really no problem since it's what I want any ways.
This DJGPP/Winsock thing has really been interesting and promises many more
challenges up ahead for me. I apologize, I haven't really tried very much
yet, but I thought if some have tread here before I might save some of my
hair. But I have a lot of hair.
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