Subj : Squish on Linux (compile errors)
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Oliver Thuns
Date : Thu Nov 21 2019 18:23:14

 OT>> Is anyone using Squish on Linux? The sources from github [1]
 OT>> don't build with any recent gcc (I even trid gcc4.9). Compile
 OT>> errors an a ton of warnings.

 AI> Not since around 2004, maybe.

 OT>> [1] https://github.com/sdudley/maximus

 AI> I never knew it was on github but that's where everything seems to be
 AI> today.

I don't like the Github monoculture, but everything is better than Sourceforge. 
I'm using Gitlab for my own projects.

 AI>  I used the 3.03 sources from sourceforge.net and the sources at
 AI> github look much the same.

I think they are the same.

 AI> Back then I think gcc was at version 2.95 or somewhere there abouts.

IIRC there were some commits for compatibility with gcc 3 (dot something). 
Unfortunetely I don't know enough of C / C++ to fix the errors and warnings 
properly. I don't think it would be hard for a C coder, but it seems nobody is 
interested in Squish and Maximus on Linux anymore. Or should I ask in the TUB 
echo?

 AI> I didn't use squish a lot but it seemed to work the way it always did
 AI> in DOS and OS/2. I vaguely recall some visual glitches but
 AI> functionality seemed to be good, at that time.

I used Squish and Maximus in the 90s and it still can compete with recent Fido 
software. I managed to compile parts of it on the Raspberry a while ago, but 
was not sure if my changes were correct or would cause other problems at 
runtime.

There was problem with rescanned echoareas I received from my uplink. Because 
todays computers and drives are so much faster, all .pkt files had the same 
timestamp. Squish tries to toss .pkt files chronologically, but fails 
misserably in that case and tosses the .pkt files in random order.

Do I have to learn C or write my own tosser in REXX? ;)


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