Subj : Maximus 3.01 source
To   : Scott Dudley
From : Mvan Le
Date : Tue Feb 09 2010 08:12 pm

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

Sure. I might as well get an account now before something "bad" happens :)

 SD> For what it is worth, the project should be buildable 
 SD> using only one compiler, at least in theory. Someone 

The Maximus 3.02 sources do build with Watcom 11.0c (using 10.6 headers & 
libs), but with the following problems: 

- Only non-overlayed executables, too big to fit in any version of Windows' 
command prompt.

- There seems to be translation problems with keyboard input with "maxn.exe" 
and "maxnd.exe".

Basically from my observations, none of the executables work from a pure 11.0c 
build. None of the executables produced are useable :)

 SD> previously mentioned that some of the options were 
 SD> hardcoded to use WC 11.0: this is actually something 
 SD> that you can change relatively easily. In case it's not 
 SD> obvious, instad of using "setwc11" to set up your 
 SD> compiler environment for WC 11.0, you can also 
 SD> configure it to use WC 10.0 or 10.5 (setwc or setwc15, 
 SD> respectively--I think?).

Yeah. I've created "setwc10.bat" for "pure" Watcom 10.6 builds, and some 
"make.bat" scripts to do the builds. I've got everything working now, and have 
updated the documentation so that when followed, Maximus 3.02 will build 
out-of-the-box :)

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

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

Well it's good to know that it wasn't me :)

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

 SD> I hope this may be of some help!

Thank's Scott !

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