Hi Folks I'm fast running out of time trying to get a bunch of stuff ready for a conference in about six weeks time. In an attempt to convert a group of M$ devotees to the wonderfull world of penguins, I have hit a brick wall. I have a C/C++ application that I have been told will compile and run in a Microsoft environment - Whilst I can compile and test it under Linux, I don't have the tools for MS. Is there anyone in Norwich willing to attempt a compile for a W95 platform ? I have all the sources on a CD along with Tcl/Tk for the GUI frontend. I know it's a bit like asking CAMRA to drink larger.... Regards, Paul.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:40:10PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Hi Folks
I'm fast running out of time trying to get a bunch of stuff ready for a conference in about six weeks time. In an attempt to convert a group of M$ devotees to the wonderfull world of penguins, I have hit a brick wall. I have a C/C++ application that I have been told will compile and run in a Microsoft environment - Whilst I can compile and test it under Linux, I don't have the tools for MS.
Is there anyone in Norwich willing to attempt a compile for a W95 platform ? I have all the sources on a CD along with Tcl/Tk for the GUI frontend.
I'm not from Norwich, so I can't do your compile (grin) - but you might try the cygwin gcc port for windows - it is a clean install, and gives you the full power of GCC... http://www.cygwin.com
Hi Chris Therein lies the crux of the problem - I don't have Windows installed on any of my machines at present, and the only MS boxes I have access to, I'm not permitted to install software on them. I could post the CD over to you, so not being in Norwich need not be a problem. On the other hand, it looks like I'll have to bit the bullit and infect a sacraficial drive for this one task (I wonder if cygwin will produce a working exe file if I ran it under wine......). Regards, Paul. On Tuesday 12 Mar 2002 11:33 am, Chris Allen wrote:
I'm not from Norwich, so I can't do your compile (grin) - but you might try the cygwin gcc port for windows - it is a clean install, and gives you the full power of GCC...
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Paul wrote:
I could post the CD over to you, so not being in Norwich need not be a problem. On the other hand, it looks like I'll have to bit the bullit and infect a sacraficial drive for this one task (I wonder if cygwin will produce a working exe file if I ran it under wine......).
Just a thought: why not run vmware? (See www.vmware.com) You can install complete operating systems in virtual machines, either on their own hard disk or in a virtual disk on your linux partition. I've used it for two years now, and it works a treat. Now I only boot into Windows properly when I want to (ie for speed in game playing) and not whenever I need some Windows software (accounts package... ack... my kingdom for a good linux business accounting package). Andrew. -- All views are my own .... who else would want them?
on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:40:10PM +0000, Paul wrote:
I'm fast running out of time trying to get a bunch of stuff ready for a conference in about six weeks time. In an attempt to convert a group of M$ devotees to the wonderfull world of penguins, I have hit a brick wall. I have a C/C++ application that I have been told will compile and run in a Microsoft environment - Whilst I can compile and test it under Linux, I don't have the tools for MS.
I have all the sources on a CD along with Tcl/Tk for the GUI frontend.
You can cross compile the source into a native win32 executable using MinGW <http://www.mingw.org/>, then you can test the generated win32 executable using wine <http://www.winehq.com/> or compile the win32 source into a native linux executable using wine's api. Or you can test the executable under plex86 <http://www.plex86.org/> or as has already been said, vmware. The win32 executables for quakeforge <http://www.quakeforge.org/> are generated with mingw, and I can attest they work quite well. :) If MFC is involved though, you might find you're out of luck.
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