From: "David Christensen" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <37b4a540 AT news5 DOT newsfeeds DOT com> <37b8c7c4 AT news5 DOT newsfeeds DOT com> Subject: Re: djgpp, Win98, Perl, and serial port Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:50:51 -0700 Lines: 82 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.3.225.50 Message-ID: <37b8d9e8@news5.newsfeeds.com> X-Trace: 16 Aug 1999 22:41:28 -0500, 209.3.225.50 X-Report: Report abuse to abuse AT newsfeeds DOT com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, INCLUDING the body X-Abuse-Info2: ALL Spam complaints are acted upon within 24 hours! Organization: Newsfeeds.com http://www.newsfeeds.com 72,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Instant access!! To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----