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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:09:15 -0700
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Matt Lewandowsky <matt DOT l AT techie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Uh oh. Another newbie. (Sorta...)
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I get the following from trying to compile either termcap-1.3 or 
termutils-2.0. (I haven't gotten terminfo to download yet...)

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lewellyn AT mattlap:/src/termcap-1.3*420$ make
cc -c  -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 
- -DSTDC_HEADERS=1  -DTERMCAP_FILE=\"/e
tc/termcap\" -I. -I. -g -v tparam.c
Reading specs from d:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.952/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
  d:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.952/cpp.exe -lang-c -v -I. -I. -D__GNUC__=2 
- -D__GN
UC_MINOR__=95 -Dunix -Di386 -DGO32 -DDJGPP=2 -DMSDOS -D__unix__ -D__i386__ 
- -D__G
O32__ -D__DJGPP__=2 -D__MSDOS__ -D__unix -D__i386 -D__GO32 -D__DJGPP=2 
- -D__MSDOS
  -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(msdos) -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -g -Acpu(i386) 
- -Amac
hine(i386) -Di386 -D__i386 -D__i386__ -D__tune_pentium__ -imacros 
d:/djgpp/bin/.
./include/sys/version.h -remap -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 
- -DSTDC_HEADER
S=1 -DTERMCAP_FILE="/etc/termcap" tparam.c d:/djgpp/tmp\ccBaCppi.i
GNU CPP version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) (80386, BSD syntax)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
  .
  d:/djgpp/include
  d:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.952/include
  d:/djgpp/include
End of search list.
The following default directories have been omitted from the search path:
  $DJDIR/lang/cxx
  $DJDIR/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.952/../../../../djgpp/include
End of omitted list.
  d:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.952/cc1.exe d:/djgpp/tmp\ccBaCppi.i -quiet 
- -dumpba
se tparam.c -g -version -o d:/djgpp/tmp\ccIcA06y.s
GNU C version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) (djgpp) compiled by GNU C version 
2.95.2
  19991024 (release).
In file included from tparam.c:29:
d:/djgpp/include/string.h:52: parse error before `('
d:/djgpp/include/string.h:52: parse error before `const'
make.exe: *** [tparam.o] Error 1
lewellyn AT mattlap:/src/termcap-1.3*421$
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Just to make it easier to locate (even though it's a short file), line 52 
of strings.h reads:

void *  bcopy(const void *_a, void *_b, size_t _len);

Note that I actually gave -v output this time... ;) I'm really not sure 
what strings.h this line should be, but something's not correct... (Is this 
another fairly well-known thing that I've stumbled upon? If so, could 
someone list others I'm likely to hit?)

I've been pounding on this for a couple days now, but to no avail. Is there 
an alternate set of headers available that work that may solve this 
problem? (Please don't laugh...) Perhaps I'm just trying to do the 
impossible for DOS?

- --Matt

At 10:46 PM 8/9/00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Matt Lewandowsky wrote:
>
> > I'm kinda amazed theres no termcap/terminfo support under DJGPP...
>
>This is true.  No one was motivated enough to write such support,
>although it would be easy enough to do, now that we have termios
>emulation.
>
>Please feel free to fill the void ;-)  If you need help and guidance,
>please send your questions to djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, the DJGPP
>developers' mailing list.
>
> > Are there any compatible implementations I could build? (I didn't find
> > anything in the FAQ about this, either. I guess I'm just having more
> > problems than anyone should...)
>
>The usual practice when porting programs which rely on termcap is to
>modify the code to use direct screen I/O.  Some examples of this
>approach can be found in ports of Info (in the Texinfo distribution),
>and in the Readline library.
>
>Also, there's GNU termcap, but I don't think it will work with DJGPP
>without some porting.  It might get you through the configure and
>build stages, though, if you download and compile it, even without
>changing the original code.

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