On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Jukka Virtanen wrote:
Hi folks.
I think gpc has been succesfully compiled and run in both the dos and os/2 environments (although I don't even know what emx is, and I am not sure I even want to know that :-) I think I am able to get the dos binaries and start distributing them if someone would like to avoid the problems in compiling gpc under dos. Are people interested in binaries? gpc makefiles are quite standard, they should not require any specific makefile features, except the VPATH variable, which tells where the make program should look for sources. Gnu make is fine. Most other new make programs are also fine.
Personally, I wouldn't mind a set of OS/2 binaries :-). Unless recompiling GPC for OS/2 is simply a matter of running the make file through GNU Make. EMX, BTW, is one of the OS/2 GCC ports. It can also run under 32-bit extended DOS (using the VCPI standard by default 'tho), so if you recompile it for OS/2 you are also making a version for DOS as well. Convienent, 'eh?
Also, I am never going to do the Borland compatibility mode myself, but I have no objections to include those changes in gpc mainline *if* someone would write them first and not just talk about it. Please do, there are many programmers out there who really seem to like borland, and it would be very useful for the project to be compatible with borland.
I'd probably move away from the Borland "standard" if a powerful Extended Pascal or Object Pascal compiler was readily available to me. Mainly because Borland is not a "real standard". 'Tho maybe it should be because a lot of people seem to use it.
Yes, it would be cool. But also remember that gpc is not quite finished yet, it still requires lots of hacking to implement the missing features...
What's missing still?
Arcadio