Re: Need Yarn for Linux?

From: Hardy Griech (rgriech@swol.de)
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:20:23 +0100

On Fri, 01 Jan 1999 14:41:12 -0800, rex@ptw.com (rex) wrote:
:
> You're probably as qualified as anyone to estimate how much work this
> port would be. :) Can you give us an estimate?
:

Searching all VSoup recources for WIN32 reveals the following:

<snip>
[E:\U\VSOUP]grep WIN32 *.hh
global.hh:#elif defined(__WIN32__)
global.hh:#if defined(OS2) || defined(__WIN32__)
rgsema.hh:#elif defined(__WIN32__) && defined(__MT__)
rgsema.hh:#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

[E:\U\VSOUP]grep WIN32 *.cc
main.cc:#if defined(OS2) || defined(__WIN32__)
<snap>

This means that the differences between the OS/2 and the Win32 version
are minimal: major part is the semaphore section.

But this is only the half truth, because in both cases emx-gcc has been
used. Thus the Linux port will probably require some other
modifications. I assume an exoerienced Linux C programmer can do it in
several hours...

Hardy

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