Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-05 Thread Jim Davidson
2011 21:21 To: AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver Hi, As Dossy mentioned, we spent some time trying to support the win32 port. That included a goofy Tcl-based config thing (which also helped to verify a workable Tcl installation) and a dose

Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-05 Thread Maurizio Martignano
: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver Yup -- seems like it's worth keeping the Win32/Win64 port going. It does muck up the code a bit with ifdef's and there are a few weirdnesses with Windows to work around but I suppose enough effort has been done in the past (if not recently) that it wouldn't be too

[AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-03 Thread Maurizio Martignano
Dear all, I'm the maintainer of the Windows Port of OpenACS. Recently (22/07/2011) I got the CVS HEAD version of Aolserver and compiled it with Microsoft Visual Studio 10 for Windows 32 bit and Windows 64 bit. I did this because I wanted to take profit of the mods

Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-03 Thread Jeff Rogers
Maurizio Martignano wrote: Well… ehm... the version in the tar ball compiles and runs well under Windows… Not so for the version under CVS HEAD: many of the changes introduced have been implemented with a careful eye only for *nix, and not for Windows. By looking at the code I have the

Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-03 Thread Dossy Shiobara
I speak only for myself ... I personally have thoughtfully cared for the Windows support in AOLserver -- once upon a time, I had built the Windows binaries that some folks were using. Through discussions I had with Jim Davidson, the new build mechanism for AOLserver 4.5.x was meant to make

Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-03 Thread Maurizio Martignano
Hello all, Some few clarifications, I am afraid I wasn't clear. The compilation in itself was rather simple and went almost ok. The issue was in the behavior in the testing Some of the code, eg, function calls to the networking parts and so on, are working in the tar ball

Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-03 Thread Jim Davidson
Hi, As Dossy mentioned, we spent some time trying to support the win32 port. That included a goofy Tcl-based config thing (which also helped to verify a workable Tcl installation) and a dose of ifdef's and compatibility code. In general, the AOLserver code base is decidedly Unix -- any Win32

Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress in Aolserver

2011-08-03 Thread Maurizio Martignano
application, having it running also on Windows may be very helpful. Cheers, Maurizio -Original Message- From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM] On Behalf Of Jim Davidson Sent: 03 August 2011 21:21 To: AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress