Subj : Waffle
To   : Gdclark
From : Oli
Date : Tue Jan 04 2022 12:23 pm

Gdclark wrote (2021-12-22):

 G>    Re: Waffle
 G>    By: Oli to Gdclark on Wed Dec 22 2021 10:45 am

 G>>> Are you still looking? I have a copy of waffleunix.tgz (1.64).
 G>>> I've not been able to compile it, the code is very old (14 Apr
 G>>> 1992) and needs migrating to a modern Unix.

 >> Cool! I'm also interested ...

 G> Since there may be a general interest, I have shared the file at

Got it.

 G> I have not been able to get it to compile (not that I've spent much time
 G> on it) and I suspect it will take some effort.

I haven't tried. Unfortunately I don't know C that well, especially not the things that changed over all the decades.

 G> My plan has been to start
 G> with a BSD from back then because I think it will compile there.

Linux wasn't very common 30 years ago, was it? ;)

 G> Then I
 G> would step-wise port it to more and more modern BSDs until it has caught
 G> up to today. At that point, it might not be hard to port it to Linux
 G> (assuming that's where most people are who would be interested).

 G> On the other hand, it might be easiest to port to an old version of Linux
 G> and then move forward in time from there.

I think if you get it compile with a recent BSD it shouldn't be too hard to port it to Linux.

I wonder if anyone has experience with compiling C(++) code with Zig.

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