X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: TRYING TO MAKE EXE RUN ON FRIENDS MACHINE Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:30:10 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: <655c5f45-555c-47fa-9c46-88fc752ce3fb@l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> References: <5fb78e93-bed6-46d9-85c8-a838e35b3d22 AT r36g2000prf DOT googlegroups DOT com> <9941ccce-87a6-4ace-9f78-9b15710643bd AT x8g2000yqk DOT googlegroups DOT com> <6e778b05-759f-4d34-8cdd-0a97afaac351 AT q30g2000prq DOT googlegroups DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1231047010 7626 127.0.0.1 (4 Jan 2009 05:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 05:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id n045j4Iu010033 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, On Jan 3, 10:15 pm, blueice wrote: > On Jan 3, 1:58 pm, Rugxulo wrote: > > > P.S. Why are you running 64-bit Vista anyways? Unless you have / need > > > > 3 GB of RAM, I think it's overkill. > >  I am not running 64-bit Vista. There is site that allows > one to test compression programs. They have huge files and > compare various compressors. The machine uses 64-bit Vista. > I have tried to run my compressors. Which only are only made in > DJGPP GNU. They don't run. So I wanted to compile them in > some easy way so they could run on that machine. I don't have > a clue where the other machine is physically located. But > they can't run executables made with DJGPP. Again I have > XP not VISTA. > >  I do have BCC55 but not sure what kind of executables > it actually makes I have only used in on short programs. I think Borland C 5.5 produces Win32 programs, which should work fine. > My current compressors are all experimental. I have a > great interest in writing a better BWTS compressor since > I created a bijective BWTS but its all in DGJPP GNU C++ > I would like to test them with others who have an interest > in compression. Since DJGPP uses stock GCC/G++, unless you're doing something really DOS-ish (non-ANSI), it should compile fine for other platforms with GCC, e.g. Cygwin or MinGW.