Porting from DJGPP code

Porting from DJGPP code

[Yoav Shadmi]

Dear Sirs

	Most of my source codes are in DJGPP, and I was wondering
	whether it is possible to port these to GNU-Win32, and how
        would you rate the effort needed.

Thanks

Yoav
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Re: Porting from DJGPP code

[Mikey]

It kind of depends on what you are porting, and why.

If you have a ton of code hand written for djgpp by you,
and you just want to be able to use it under windozeNT/95
just use a dos box, and forget about it.

I ported dtou/utod to cygwin32, and had to change almost every
line, for posix compatibility.

If you have djgpp source that has been ported from GNU
then get the original GNU source code, and it should
configure/compile without problems, in fact it may already
have been "ported", check out the cygnus homepage, and links
from there for apps that are available.

BTW when you ask for help on the list, it would be well
to specify in a little more detail what you are trying to do.
as well as your platform.

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:46:48 +0300, you wrote:

>Dear Sirs
>
>	Most of my source codes are in DJGPP, and I was wondering
>	whether it is possible to port these to GNU-Win32, and how
>        would you rate the effort needed.
>
>Thanks
>
>Yoav
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Re: Porting from DJGPP code

[Bernd Backhaus]

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Re: Porting from DJGPP code

[Marty Leisner]

> Dear Sirs
> 
> 	Most of my source codes are in DJGPP, and I was wondering
> 	whether it is possible to port these to GNU-Win32, and how
>         would you rate the effort needed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yoav
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> "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".


If you try to stay with ansi/posix style code, you should not have much
of a problem...but if you start using dos-isms...

It probably is as hard to port to win32 as some other unix platform.

It many cases if code runs on unix platforms, its easy to port to win32 and 
djgpp.

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marty
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        2) Think real hard
        3) Write down the answer
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