Re: [perl #41243] [TODO] Link on Win32 with Borland C++
I'll pick up borland and play with it, although I won't get to it until the next cycle. I've got a really old version of Turbo C++ 4.52 left over from school, and free versions of Turbo C++ Explorer are available for download. I don't promise any miracles, but at least I will be able to prove that some errors still exist or not. --Andrew Whitworth On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Will Coleda via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: On Thu Jan 11 09:55:40 2007, stmpeters wrote: On Thu Jan 11 08:57:22 2007, coke wrote: Need details. A recent patch has gotten Parrot to the point that it can be compiled with Borland C++ on Win32. Unfortunately, it does not link correctly to actually create a valid parrot executable. Additional configuration is needed to make Borland compile and link Parrot so that it can actually be run and tested. Without a champion for this compiler, there's not much we can do; Our current targets for Windows include, as I understand it, cygwin, strawberry perl and its build system, and recent versions of VisualC++. Borland isn't in our core list for the upcoming 1.0 release. If we do find a Borland champion, they should open a new ticket at https://trac.parrot.org/. Rejecting this ticket; Regards. -- Will Coke Coleda ___ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
Re: [perl #41243] [TODO] Link on Win32 with Borland C++
Andrew Whitworth wrote: I'll pick up borland and play with it, although I won't get to it until the next cycle. I've got a really old version of Turbo C++ 4.52 left over from school, and free versions of Turbo C++ Explorer are available for download. I don't promise any miracles, but at least I will be able to prove that some errors still exist or not. --Andrew Whitworth On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Will Coleda via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: On Thu Jan 11 09:55:40 2007, stmpeters wrote: On Thu Jan 11 08:57:22 2007, coke wrote: Need details. A recent patch has gotten Parrot to the point that it can be compiled with Borland C++ on Win32. Unfortunately, it does not link correctly to actually create a valid parrot executable. Additional configuration is needed to make Borland compile and link Parrot so that it can actually be run and tested. Without a champion for this compiler, there's not much we can do; Our current targets for Windows include, as I understand it, cygwin, strawberry perl and its build system, and recent versions of VisualC++. Borland isn't in our core list for the upcoming 1.0 release. If we do find a Borland champion, they should open a new ticket at https://trac.parrot.org/. Rejecting this ticket; Regards. Some time ago, because of this ticket, I tried with Borland C++ 5.5.1 and 5.82, and failed miserably. But that may just be my bad bcc-foo. Unless someone's keen for this platform and has access to a fairly new (within two years) version (is it called C++ Builder now?), I'm not sure if this is worth pursuing. Ron
Re: [perl #41243] [TODO] Link on Win32 with Borland C++
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Ron Blaschke r...@rblasch.org wrote: Some time ago, because of this ticket, I tried with Borland C++ 5.5.1 and 5.82, and failed miserably. But that may just be my bad bcc-foo. Unless someone's keen for this platform and has access to a fairly new (within two years) version (is it called C++ Builder now?), I'm not sure if this is worth pursuing. The free version of Turbo C++ Builder is called Turbo C++ Explorer. Should be the same thing, minus some features. If I can get it to work with the most recent version of that, I can try digging back through older versions to find compatibility problems. --Andre Whitworth
Re: [perl #41243] [TODO] Link on Win32 with Borland C++
Unless this task would make you exceedingly happy, I wouldn't bother. IMO, there are much higher priority things requiring tuits than trying to add a fourth compiler for windows, especially before the 1.0 release. Regards. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Ron Blaschke r...@rblasch.org wrote: Some time ago, because of this ticket, I tried with Borland C++ 5.5.1 and 5.82, and failed miserably. But that may just be my bad bcc-foo. Unless someone's keen for this platform and has access to a fairly new (within two years) version (is it called C++ Builder now?), I'm not sure if this is worth pursuing. The free version of Turbo C++ Builder is called Turbo C++ Explorer. Should be the same thing, minus some features. If I can get it to work with the most recent version of that, I can try digging back through older versions to find compatibility problems. --Andre Whitworth -- Will Coke Coleda
Re: [perl #41243] [TODO] Link on Win32 with Borland C++
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ron Blaschke r...@rblasch.org wrote: Andrew Whitworth wrote: I'll pick up borland and play with it, although I won't get to it until the next cycle. I've got a really old version of Turbo C++ 4.52 left over from school, and free versions of Turbo C++ Explorer are available for download. I don't promise any miracles, but at least I will be able to prove that some errors still exist or not. --Andrew Whitworth On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Will Coleda via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: On Thu Jan 11 09:55:40 2007, stmpeters wrote: On Thu Jan 11 08:57:22 2007, coke wrote: Need details. A recent patch has gotten Parrot to the point that it can be compiled with Borland C++ on Win32. Unfortunately, it does not link correctly to actually create a valid parrot executable. Additional configuration is needed to make Borland compile and link Parrot so that it can actually be run and tested. Without a champion for this compiler, there's not much we can do; Our current targets for Windows include, as I understand it, cygwin, strawberry perl and its build system, and recent versions of VisualC++. Borland isn't in our core list for the upcoming 1.0 release. If we do find a Borland champion, they should open a new ticket at https://trac.parrot.org/. Rejecting this ticket; Regards. Some time ago, because of this ticket, I tried with Borland C++ 5.5.1 and 5.82, and failed miserably. But that may just be my bad bcc-foo. Unless someone's keen for this platform and has access to a fairly new (within two years) version (is it called C++ Builder now?), I'm not sure if this is worth pursuing. Ron The issue I ran into at the time was that dmake, which was the usual make program used with bcc32, is not capable of handling the Parrot make file. I believe it could work with gmake on win32, but I hadn't really attempted anything down that direction since I was encountering too many other issues following a major restructuring of the headers that had occurred. Steve
