Subj : Compiling ``slib'' w/Watcom
To   : Serguei Trouchelle
From : Bo Simonsen
Date : Sun Nov 16 2003 12:17 am

Hello Serguei!

Nov 15 01:12 03, Serguei Trouchelle wrote to All:

 ST> Used:
 ST>   OpenWatcom 1.1
 ST>   UnxUtils (w/GNU Make version 3.78.1)
 ST>   Windows 2000 SP4

Nice to see interest from non-unix-guys ;)

 ST> First problem is unability to correctly execute sh ./configure, it 
 ST> has nested sh executions, based on #! method, which doesn't work 
 ST> under WinNT environments.
 ST> So, I have to write own vars_windowsnt.mk
 ST> Using ./configuration-test/make.sh with 3.78.1 cause some problems 
 ST> too, it can understand only 3.## 

Good, maybe scott did leave some makefiles for NT?

....

 ST> Next. ./slib/Makefile

 ST> It has hard-coded ``gcc'' lines. I think it is a very bad idea...

It might not be useable for NT, maybe a Makefile.NT might do it? ;)

 ST> Compiling smserial.c must be used only for OS/2 and UNIX, no need to 
 ST> compile it for DOS/D386/NT platforms.

Yes.

Regards,
Bo

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