Re: Re: Some stuff I would like to do later this week

From: jeremyd@ctc.net
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 22:52:46 EDT

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    > From: Patrick Lam <plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu>
    > Date: 2002/05/14 Tue PM 07:23:56 EDT
    > To: jeremyd@computer.org, abiword-dev@abisource.com
    > Subject: Re: Re: Some stuff I would like to do later this week
    >
    > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:14:20PM -0400, jeremyd@ctc.net wrote:
    ...
    >
    > > Just as a side note, if I do manage to find time to
    > > continue working on my DOS port, should or may I commit
    > > some patches that allow the XP code (and make system) to
    > > work with DJGPP?
    >
    > What do the patches look like? Do they make things uglier?
    >
    > pat
    >

    I haven't worked on it in a few months, so I need to
    update it to match, but last time I tried the patches
    were simply to add DOS as a platform where platform
    specific #defines are.

    e.g.
    +# DOS (DJGPP i386/Allegro)
    +ifeq ($(OS_NAME), DOS)
    +include $(ABI_ROOT)/src/config/platforms/DOS.mk
    +endif
    +

    and a couple add __DOS__ to some define sections e.g.
    -#if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(__BEOS__) && !defined(__QNX__) && !defined(__APPLE__)
    +#if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(__BEOS__) && !defined(__QNX__) && !defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(__DOS__)

    So far I've only had to patch 5 files, and I have a
    chunk of the platform classes stubbed with a few
    implemented (based mostly on a mixture of the Windows
    and Unix sources, whichever is more appropriate).

    I'm not concerned about comitting them as this is something
    I am working on in my spare time and will probably take
    me a year or so for anything even remotely usable.
    For those who think I'm nuts, the actual reason I got
    involved with AbiWord development was to do this port.
    There was discussion about lack of a modern WP for DOS
    on a DOS list I read, having recently ran into AbiWord 0.7
    being used as the basis for a script writing program,
    its cross platform build system seemed great for porting
    an existing WP to DOS (386+ protected mode DJGPP that is).
    I fell for the ant and have been trying help ever since. :-)

    If you are really curious, I will periodically update
    the zip file with my work on my site
    http://abiword.pchasm.org/abiword/patches/ dapiword.zip

    Jeremy Davis
    jeremyd@computer.org

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