--- In [email protected], andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:00:32AM -0000, Abhay Padlia wrote: > > > Not exactly a web page describing the differences, but a "standard > > function library" at: > > > > http://www.imatix.com/html/sfl/ > > Have you actually tried to build this? I had a go at it on FreeBSD and > was disappointed when I ran into a fair bit of trouble, although some > parts of it seemed to build properly after I converted the source files > to UNIX text file format.
I haven't used these libraries personally. I downloaded Realibase/1.0 from: http://www.imatix.com/downloads.htm I am able to build "sfl" on SUSE Linux after building and installing "boom" package. Hope it works for you on FreeBSD. > > The amount of work required to actually get it to build properly could > explain why it's not in the FreeBSD Ports tree. It's all a bit odd > considering its claims of portability. > > Maybe the code itself is more portable than the build scripts provided > with it. > > Also, the most recent version is 7 years old, which I also find a bit > odd. Although that could just be because the standard general APIs of > most modern mainstream operating systems (Windows, OS X, Linux, *BSD) > has not changed at all in that time. Which is probably a good thing! > > Regards > Andrew >
