Yeah, that was my thought.. Course, someone has already done it with Watcom as the README says to use and is distributing a binary of the one .exe I don't need.. I'll give it a shot with Cygwin, unless anyone else has a mini HOWTO on getting it to work with Watcom as the README alludes to.. ?
James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Compiling on Windows > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:24:13PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > > "James Higginbotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can someone please tell me the best way to get Pilot-link to compile > > > on windows nt/2000. I downloaded Watcom C++ 11.0c from > > > openwatcom.org but cannot get it to build since they don't provide > > > sys/socket.h and other files. All I want to do is have install-* > > > available so I can do some nifty "as seen on TV" stuff from emacs > > > and scripts. If someone can zip up their exes compiled and tested on > > > Windows that would be great, too! I'm mostly programming in other > > > languages, and its been about 5 years, so my C/C++ skills are more > > > than rusty, esp on Windows. > > > > I'd say that you have a fighting chance of getting it working with > > Cygwin and that trying to make it work without an environment like > > that is probably madness. > > Yes. I have gotten a lot of software to run on Cygwin on a W2K laptop > recently, including various X11 window managers and tons of GNU software. > With Cygwin the port is possible (if not trivial). > > -- > Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: > Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) > http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92) > _______________________________________________ > Pilot-unix mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix > _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
