On 2001.08.02, Rusty Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That was the problem after all.

Cool.  Glad my memory still works.  ;-)

> But there are more problems...

Aren't there always?  ;-)

> it seems to want a file called tcl8x.c which does not exist.

Yeah, the QA process for AOLserver releases is still a bit
lacking.  I'd really like to start a formal QA process for
AOLserver, especially with the 4.0 release headed our way.

> Do you perhaps have a .tar file that is known to work?

Not really.  Yes, I could make one -- I could tar up everything
I have locally that I used to create the AOLserver 3.4 binary
release ... but it would be very informal, and not really
supported.

> Also, I'm just going to make .maks out of the dsps, I think.  Any
> chance the AOLServer distribution could come with them so I could just
> do a nmake /f main.mak and be done with it?

Beat you to it.  If memory serves, I've already checked my
work into CVS ... look in the win32/ directory, along with
include/Makefile.win32 ... I've hand-rolled these Makefiles
rather than having DevStudio auto-generate them.  Maybe
that was foolish of me -- I'm not sure yet.  ;-)

> Are there any plans to sort of merge the source trees and include win32
> stuff in Makefile.global so I can just use gcc under windows?

How stable is win32 gcc?  I haven't dared to try it, and I doubt
it can build anything except for console apps. but maybe I'm
wrong.

The source is already pretty well merged ... the only thing that
really isn't is the Tcl distribution but that's fine, and building
the Tcl stuff is pretty rock solid now, anyhow.  What really needs
some more polishing is the win32 build process, and unfortunately
I know Jim likes to develop under DevStudio which means he's only
using the .dsp files ... which are probably the better way to go
on win32 but I'm just a Luddite sometimes ...

> Also, I've heard little snippets about AOLServer 4, that some of the
> development is actually being done on windows?  Is that true, and is it
> slated for release any time soon?

You can toy around with a pre-release version of AOLserver 4 by
checking it out of SourceForge CVS.  I don't know whether the
development is done on Windows, but I'm sure there's at least
some minimal testing being done on Windows.

And, no, I don't think there's a public release schedule, not
from the AOL folks, at least.

-- Dossy

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