Subj : Maximus 3.01 source
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Scott Dudley
Date : Sat Feb 06 2010 12:03 pm

Bo,

 SD> It's good to see that you are still around too! I 
 SD> admit that I only started following when I was able 
 SD> to find a RSS feed for MUFFIN.

 BS> Ah, probably from a synchronet system I assume. :) How 
 BS> is it using a BBS after all these years? :)

I admit that I still have not yet found the urge to use a competing product. I 
am actually using Andre Clarke's fantastic RSS service at 
http://fidonet.ozzmosis.com!

Mvan,

Sorry about that--it sounds like the build instructions led you astray. I still 
do have admin rights at the sourceforge project if you need to find a way to 
get in to correct them, as Andrew mentioned! It looks like Andrew could help 
you in that regard too.

For what it is worth, the project should be buildable using only one compiler, 
at least in theory. Someone previously mentioned that some of the options were 
hardcoded to use WC 11.0: this is actually something that you can change 
relatively easily. In case it's not obvious, instad of using "setwc11" to set 
up your compiler environment for WC 11.0, you can also configure it to use WC 
10.0 or 10.5 (setwc or setwc15, respectively--I think?).

I should add that the above is the theory only: those compilers were used to 
build previous versions of Maximus, but my memory is fuzzy regarding whether or 
not I ever tried them with 3.02. I do notice that the "fix" for the 
previously-mentioned /wcd compilation error is incorporated there.

For the record, I also don't recall using anything except production versions 
of the WATCOM compilers (eg. not OpenWatcom) for producing any of the 
distribution versions of Maximus. 

I am also pretty sure that the build scripts were only tested/tried using a 
Win32 host platform (in other words, don't try to build from DOS).

I hope this may be of some help!

Scott

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