Re: [Gcl-devel] GCL on mingw

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire ?????:
> > When I had access to Mike Thomas' home machine for a bit, we got a
> > working setup going with emacs' new version of unexnt.c, unexw32.c.
> 
> Is unexw32.c some newer Window unexec code?  unexnt.c seems to
> be quite old.
> 

Yes, We should likely move to this file eventually in any case.

> > If you want to work on getting this going, I can help here too.  If
> > VALBITS was deliberately chosen to have this restrictive value in
> > unexnt.c due to the following unexec algorithm, such limitation is
> > likely removed in unexw32.c.  In any case, we need to especially test
> > (si::save-system...) when testing our expanded 'end' setting in
> > unexnt.c.
> 
> I'll try some experiments but a bit later.  I'll be on leave for
> two days.
> 

Thanks!  Please keep me posted.

> 
> > After we get this going, perhaps we could similarly look at the
> > ansi/fast-links issue, and then perhaps bfd relocations, if you have
> > the time.
> >
> 
> Surely!  I don't like Windows programming very much but making
> GCL portable and stable is exciting objective.
> BTW, now I work with GCL/mingw on Windows XP but I can
> tets it on other Windows inscarnations (Me/98/2000).
> And I'd like also to take a look at GCL under cygwin - one more
> piece of portability.
> 

Sounds great!

Take care,

> 
> 
> -- 
>       Vadim V. Zhytnikov
> 
>        <address@hidden>
>       <address@hidden>
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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