Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/17/04:44:28
comp.os.msdos.djgpp & Bill:
I have been posting all our e-mail conversations on
comp.os.msdos.djgpp and comp.lang.perl.misc. I hope that's OK with
you...
This thread is getting pretty heavy into DJGPP only, so I'm going
to stop cross-posting to comp.lang.perl.misc starting with this
message.
>I'm not sure who Eli is.
Eli Zaretskii is one of the authors of "GNU Software for MS-Windows
and MS-DOS and Compatible Systems"
(http://www.fsf.org/order/windows.html). He hangs around on
comp.os.msdos.djgpp, and is a good sport about us all pestering him
;-). I highly recommend his book/ CD to anyone who develops on MS
boxes.
> There are at least three sets of "serial libraries" for DJGPP...
I just downloaded the lastest DJGPP FAQ (Edition 2.11, for DJGPP
Version 2.01 September 1998, Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998 Eli Zaretskii.) from the Simtel mirror
(ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/). Under "22.3
Where to find sample DJGPP code or a package ported to DJGPP?", it
says:
- if you need a serial communications package, check out the
SVAsync library.
- another package for serial communications, called BCSERIO, was
written by Bill Currie. BCSERIO is available from Bill's home page.
- if you need serial communications from programs that use the
Allegro library, try DZComm, which is available from the
v2tk/allegro directory on the usual DJGPP sites.
Does anyone have any comments/ recommendations on any of these
libraries?
>> back up plan ... CPAN first, ActivePerl second.
>The 5.005 version is a bit more portable...
I just went to my local CPAN mirror to see what ports were
available and both
ftp://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/ports/win32/ActiveState/ and
ftp://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/ports/win32/Standard/ were
empty! I'm confused %-(
>to compile in the Win32::API module...
Have you heard of Cygnus (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/)?
As I understand it, they wrote a DLL that provides a Un*x (Posix?)
API layer sitting on top of the Win32 API. They then ported over a
bunch of Gnu stuff, including gcc. It's now self-hosting. They
also make cross-compilers hosted on Win32. I got a source CD at
the last Silicon Valley Linux User Group (http://www.svlug.org/)
meeting, but have yet to try compiling their compiler so I can
compile everything else (I wish they had just put a compiler/ DLL
binary on the CD, but I think they sell/ license (?) those -- I'm
not sure how "free" it is).
>The other alternative is an XS implementation...
What's XS?
--
David Christensen
dchristensen AT california DOT com
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