Subj : Squish/w32 os/2 etc
To   : Serguei Trouchelle
From : Bob Jones
Date : Thu Nov 06 2003 05:48 pm

 ST> OpenWatcom is free. I compiled original Squish with 
 ST> OpenWatcom without problems. 

 BJ> I was attempting to compile both Max and Squish using a beta of
 BJ> OpenWatacom running under OS/2.

 BJ> What version of OpenWatcom did you use?

 ST> I used "WatcomC 11.0c b1".

Ah...  Ok.  Wasn't that just before the free version?  Or maybe that was a 
Watcom's first attempt at a free version, but required the commercial version 
to get some of the libraries, headers, or some other stuff.....

 ST> Now I'm downloading 1.1 version of OpenWatcom and will 
 ST> try to compile Squish with current version. 

 BJ> What OS (and version, and set of patches) did you compile the code
 BJ> under? 

 ST> Windows 2000 Prof/SP1 afair. 

Ok.  Thanks.

 BJ> What make utility did you use?

 ST> Watcom's afair. 

Ah.....  You probably will hit make file problems then with OpenWatcom.  I 
believe the older Watcom make files don't properly open under OpenWatcom.  
Maybe that's been resolved.  Actually, since squish doesn't require as much 
code as Maximus, it might be easy enough to regenerate the Squish make setup 
for a native compile from scratch.  And this would also explain problems 
getting 16-bit code compiling, and will proably also impact cross compiling....

 ST> I don't remember actually, it was about year ago. 

 BJ> Did you have Cyrx... (sp?) (i.e. the Windows port of a number of
 BJ> GNU licensed developement and shell utilties) loaded on your
 BJ> system?  If so, what code and versions?

 ST> Yes, it was UnixUtls, dated 99 year. 

Ok.  I had not put all the needed utilities up on my OS/2 box the last time I 
had tried and was expecting to get an error message when the compile needed 
YACC or Bison (for the total build).  [Don't remember if this is needed when 
compiling just Squish.]

 BJ> [Note:  I see in a later message that the following question is
 BJ> already (at least partially) answered as yes....] 

 BJ> Would you be willing to help us get the current SourceForge CVS
 BJ> controlled  Maximus and Squish (and maybe also SqaFix) code
 BJ> compiling again under OpenWatcom for both Win32 and OS/2 (32 bit
 BJ> compile) ? 

 ST> Yes, it would be great.

Thanks!

 BJ>  How about also adding the 16bit and other DOS versions?

 ST> I'm not sure. I failed to compile DOS16 Squish. Maybe 
 ST> if I spent more time, I'll compile it, but my purpose 
 ST> was w32 version, so I didn't look into it. 

Understand.  We would need to get the proper batch / command scripts running 
with the proper compile flags being set to pull of these types of options.

Thanks for the note.  We will have to work this out over time and get you 
active on compiling a Win32 set of binaries, and possibly 32-bit OS/2 and other 
DOS option binaries.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41




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