Hi all!
I think it's time for me to start programming for Linux, so I decided to download the sources of the latest GPC alpha version. However, there are a few questions I want to ask:
* Just in case: is there a newer version about to be released? (I think I could wait a few days then ;)
* What do I need to successfully compile and run GPC? My current configuration includes GCC 2.7.2.3 (yes, I know it's too old), libc 5.4.33 and GNU binutils 2.8.1.0.1 (BTW I've tried to find GCC 2.8.x on ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu (the official GCC site according to GCC-HOWTO), but only EGCS 1.0.3 was present there - readme said something about problems with gcc, so now I don't know whether I should choose GCC or EGCS.)
Thanks in advance! -- Marius Gedminas "A Hacker is any person who derives E-mail: mgedmin@pub.osf.lt joy from discovering ways to WWW: http://www-public.osf.lt/~mgedmin/ circumvent limitations." rab'86
Hello all!
I would like to unsubscribe to this mailing list, but there is one thing I need to say before.
I have spent the past five to six months reading all about GPC and all the problems/discussions/arguments that have arisen here. I really enjoyed every minute of it. I had originally joined because I had a University project using GPC which I had to finish. You guys have all helped me, in some qay or another.
Special thanks must go to Peter who seems to spend more time answering mail here than living! His well written explanations have been a life saver many a time.
I am unsubscribing because the project is finished, my Universioty course is finished (I am waiting for the results for my degree within the next two-three weeks) and because I am moving to England (from Malta) to work there.
Thank you very much, all of you!
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Hello the list,
I have spent the past five to six months reading all about GPC and all the problems/discussions/arguments that have arisen here. I really enjoyed every minute of it. I had originally joined because I had a University project using GPC which I had to finish. You guys have all helped me, in some qay or another.
I am unsubscribing because the project is finished, my Universioty course is finished (I am waiting for the results for my degree within the next two-three weeks) and because I am moving to England (from Malta) to work there.
I am unsubscribing for the very same reasons! It seems GPC, despite it deserves far better than just this, has saved a lot of guys from DOS and akin abominations. I am gratful to Peter (and others) for their help, wich often was not strictly related to GPC relevant topic. My (university) project was about Conway's game of life, and I came to a closer study of its chaotical behaviour, which are obvious in the plot of the demography of Life's Methuselah (which I never saw before).
I have put a short exerpt on the web at the adress below (the code compiled under GPC but not under the DOS machine of the university! not because the code was not compatible, I stayed the most closely possible to BP's syntax, but because of DOS's lack of good memory gestion, which couldn't compilate beyond 64ko or so, so GPC is real great, and it is with is I got those datas)
http://www.mygale.org/05/laussy/
I am still working on those things, but halas, now it is not strictly related to university, so I decided to use plain C which I am far more confident with it, as bad programmer I am. Meanwhile, it was good time with the staff, GPC guru and GPC enthusiasts.
My best greetings to all of you.
According to Marius Gedminas:
- Just in case: is there a newer version about to be released? (I think I could wait a few days then ;)
That depends on what you consider "a few" days. ;-)
I am planning to release the next official version of GPC in summer 1997. Yes, we are somehow late, but it's getting more and more stable ...
- What do I need to successfully compile and run GPC?
To compile GPC, you need the source of gcc-2.8.x or a recent EGCS snapshot.
To run GPC, you need just the usual development suite (binutils and such) and a binary distribution of GPC (unless you compile it yourself).
(BTW I've tried to find GCC 2.8.x on ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu (the official GCC site according to GCC-HOWTO), but only EGCS 1.0.3 was present there -
I got my copy of gcc-2.8.x from a German mirror of `prep.gnu.ai.mit.edu'.
readme said something about problems with gcc, so now I don't know whether I should choose GCC or EGCS.)
The "E" in EGCS stands for "experimental", so you should choose that one if you are interested in the most recent developments and not afraid of undetected bugs.
Peter
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