Re: Building jed 0.99-17 & slang 1.4.9 for Win32

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Skilleter <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>However, I'm trying to build the newest jed and slang for Windows and they
>won't, at least when using a makefile created for Borland C and Win32 with

The pre-released version of jed has only been tested on Unix.  As a
result, I am not surprised that the windows port is broken.  I will
put out another snapshot soon that fixes some of these problems
because I also to release a slang 2 snapshot and I would like jed to
be tested with it.

>mkmake. I'm using v5.02 of the Borland compiler, which is rather old, but
>does everything I need it to and doesn't require Windows XP, .NET and 10Gb
>of disk space :-).

>
>Zerothly, the makefile generated for s-lang sets RSP_POSTFIX to '^^&',
>which confuses the Borland linker - it should be just '&' - with this
>change the slang library seems to build OK.

Perhaps a Borland v5.02 specific entry in makefile.all.  Are you using
Windows NT?  makefile.all contains this NT specific code:

  ! if$OS Windows_NT
  RSP_POSTFIX = ^^&
  ! else
  RSP_POSTFIX = &
  ! endif

>Firstly, there's a "defined(__BORLAND_V5__)" used in jed's config.h to
>detect use of the Borland v5 C compiler (I assume) but __BORLAND_V5__ isn't
>defined by v5.0x of the compiler (which I'm using) changing this to the
>slightly more cumbersome:
>
>(defined(__BORLANDC__) && (__BORLANDC__>>8)==5)
>
>seems to fix the problem - at least everything compiles, anyway.
>
>Secondly, though, there are two functions; jed_insert_chars and
>jed_open_process_pipe that are called a number of times in the source, but
>jed_insert_chars isn't defined anywhere and jed_open_process_pipe is
>defined in jprocess.c, but that source file is for OS/2, not Win32.
>
>I can probably knock together a reasonable jed_insert_chars function or
>maybe even just replace it with jed_insert_nbytes, but
>jed_open_process_pipe looks 'interesting' (in my experience, multiple
>processes under Windows are always 'interesting')....

jed_insert_chars was renamed to to jed_insert_nbytes because the UTF-8
version distinguishes chars from bytes.

Please feel free to send me a patch of all your changes for
integration into the next snapshot.

Thanks again,
--John

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