X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: TRYING TO MAKE EXE RUN ON FRIENDS MACHINE Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 03:37:50 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <4563e62e-7382-4c6a-b986-d4c8a8ff9d47 AT i18g2000prf DOT googlegroups DOT com> <0541cc98-689c-4e6c-ae02-d6f5a1b4a9cb AT l37g2000vba DOT googlegroups DOT com> <886d17b9-399f-48ed-ac4d-45ca11d3879f AT s20g2000yqh DOT googlegroups DOT com>

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<06631d19-297f-4622-b8e8-9f2b5fc8c892 AT a12g2000pro DOT googlegroups DOT com> <5a8fd366-52e8-4389-adde-8ea41684279c AT t39g2000prh DOT googlegroups DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pldq+kT97bAAp/ObDwnZyQ.user.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse AT aioe DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:36:33 +0000 (UTC) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1933 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.7 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1933 Cancel-Lock: sha1:D48kNgATPvkqBflEgmYUCP7FeIk= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Rugxulo" wrote in message news:5a8fd366-52e8-4389-adde-8ea41684279c AT t39g2000prh DOT googlegroups DOT com... > [QEMU issues] Yeah, I'll probably end up creating an harddisk image as you suggest... copy everything to it... > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm > > "This is an implementation of a small part of GLibC, just enough to > compile most Unix programs on MS Windows. It's good to know what that minimum set is. As you may recall, I've keeping track of similar info. Although from what they listed, that minimum set seems quite large to me... and has way too much POSIX. It's amazing to think about the fact that they didn't have the forsight to restrict coding their utilities using only ANSI C - except where impossible. It's a huge waste of the potential of their codebase, i.e., not portable except to POSIX environments. > It contains functions for > passwords, process id's groups, and strings. Most are interfaces to > the MS-Windows Win32 API. Some are just dummy functions that do > nothing. " The conversion to Win32 API makes it useless for non-Windows use... although it probably edited out much useless *nix code. It's likely nowhere near ANSI C. I just can't win. Although, it could be a good starting point for an ANSI C compileable libc, if you wanted to deal with the GPL. "Use of LibGw32c as a separate development library is very complicated. The most practical way is to copy the source code for the necessary functions to your own source code and to adapt your include files and Makefiles. For some functions you must also link with the following standard libraries: - libole32.a - libuuid.a - libwsock32.a" Ah, my life story... never anything to reduce work. From the description you quoted, I would've thought it was *new* code, not reduced glibc. And, it's GPL even though there is no license... The smaller size is important. Who needs (another) GPL'd libc? A non-GPL'd libc would be useful. Although, I guess if you didn't want Cygwin's .dll, it's one more option. > Hmmm, actually all I had otherwise was just a bunch of links to GCC / > EMX / FPC cross-compiler stuff (e.g. BinUtils Win32 cross-tools from > FreePascal for various targets, various EMX DOS+OS/2 compilers + > updates, various RSX + RSXNT + RSXNTDJ + NT09D files which are > apparently very hard to find, as well as the old FPC 1.0.10 DOS+OS/2 > EMX version). I guess that's not hugely relevant here, but at least I > found it interesting. I've heard of EMX, but since I don't have OS/2... useless (?). I think I looked at that RSX stuff. I don't recall what I thought about it. I'm unfamiliar with the other combinations. RP