Subj : Re: Compiling from source
To   : tenser
From : Avon
Date : Thu Jan 21 2021 20:21:16

On 18 Jan 2021 at 02:14a, tenser pondered and said...
 
 te>  Av> gcc config.cpp keyboard.cpp nntp.cpp pop.cpp smtp.cpp socket.cpp
 te>  Av> socket.hpp sock.h spoon.cpp spoon.h -o spoon.test
 te> 
 te> Generally speaking, you don't try to compile header files
 te> (.hpp or .h) directly.  Rather, those are usually meant to
 te> be "included" in a source file that is then compiled.

Thanks, yep even to this untrained bloke it seemed like when I looked at the
errors there were things being called that were missing. I had a feeling not
all files needed to be included in the command line but also no idea of what
I should or should not use. :)

 te> Running `gcc` by itself may well be just fine, as it's

 te> user-level programs...I digress).  But running g++ or
 te> c++ is also fine and certainly won't hurt anything.

Yep I tried both but no joy.

 te> There is no `makefile` or `Makefile`?  That's unfortunate.

No the docs said there would be but no dice.

 te> I'd try pulling the headers off of the command line first to
 te> see if that helps.
 te> 
 te> If the tarball of the file in question is available somewhere,
 te> I might be able to pull of a few cycles to see if I can get it
 te> to compile.

I have not looked / played with it in a few days now but thanks for the offer.

I did try a version that Oli passed to me via a git repo but I have not yet
had success getting soupgate and soup to work totally correctly as yet for
any static or complied versions I have managed to build or obtain as yet.

http://software.tomsweb.net/soupgate.html has the links to the static files
and linux source.

So far under linux (and I'm a bit woolly on this now as it's been a few days)

I have managed to get (I think it was Oli's ) version of Soup to poll my NNTP
server and pull down some packets, then I think it was the static soupgate
file that gated them to PKT, then (and lordy I have got myself a bit muddled
now with all the versions I have been trying) it was Oli's soupgate that
would at least see the PKT to be exported in the FTN outbound, the static
version didn't see them, and I (only once) got I think his version of soup to
post to NNTP but then it borked after the NNTP bit as files on the HDD that
should have been removed were not. Phew..

You'll understand why I have not been back at this in few days.

At the heart of all this is my need to find Linux alternatives to what I
currently run on Win32 to parse FTN PKTs in/out of my NNTP server. For
windows I have been using vSoup but that does not exist for Linux as far as I
can tell hence playing with the authors Soup software to see if that would
work.

I may to start with end up having to fudge things between two systems linux
and windows in order to get gating working while starting to run Linux for
HUB packet tossing duties.

To start with I plan to cut over things that handle my Fido and othernets
traffic that I carry but not fsxNet as yet... I really want to sort things
out using the othernets first before I look to move 21:1/100 over as well..

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