Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:07:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 4 Jan 2000, Mumit Khan wrote:

> A Mingw user just asked me about protoize for Mingw, and turns out that
> it just doesn't work (mostly handling pathnames, and some text vs binary
> issues). He also mentioned that he'd originally tried djgpp and it 
> doesn't work there either, which makes sense now that I've taken a 
> closer look.

I once ported protoize (from GCC 2.6.x, I think) to DJGPP.  It was highly 
non-trivial.

Apart of the problems you mention, there are also issues with finding the 
system headers (to generate the syscalls.X file).  This required run-time 
computation of file names which the original source--traditionally--so
compiles into the binary as a fixed string.

> I have fixes against 2.95.2 that should make it work under DJGPP, but 
> it may require a few tweaks (such as __DJGPP__ in addition to whatever
> macros I'm using currently). Email if interested.

Thanks.  Please send the diffs to djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com.

Does the fixed version build out of the box if you add protoize to the 
list of languages when you build GCC?