Hi Justin You might be better off using the native windows code for EMBOSS developed by Alan Bleasby - which I don't think is available via our website yet but Alan can provide. Feel free to email emboss-bug about it.
Cheers Jon > Justin, 3 days ago I have been try in struggling with this problem. > > If you have MSDN installed on your computer see in it contents explorer: > > * Win32 and COM Development > o Development Guides > * UNIX Application Migration Guide > * Chapter 9: Win32 Code Conversion > > Or go on link: > http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=Overview+o > f+the+UNIX+Application+Migration+Guide > > If you make a decision to port header files, you must be convert all UNIX > scecifics: > - UNIX creates a new process by using fork > - converting UNIX code to Win32 requires the use of new techniques replacing > the use of some UNIX signals > - specific in working with threads > - synchronization issues > - specific in users, groups and security management > - specific in file and data access management > - an so on. > > Also, you must come to know the particulars of some header files, absent in > Win32, i.e.: > - dirent.h > - dirent_w32.h > - win32.h > - <pwd.h> > - <sys/wait.h> > - and some else > > > Regards, Nick. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john p > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 8:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EMBOSS] How to compile water.c > > Greeting wise ones,, > > My name is Justin from Malaysia. I've just started a postgrad research on > accelerating bioinformatics applications. > > My current task is to analyze and profile the smith-waterman algorithm. I > dont have much experience on C programming and am just picking up. I need to > compile water.c in Win XP. I'm currently using Visual Studio C++ Express and > Dev-C++. > > When trying to compile water.c, i encountered many problems... they were a > lot of linking errors and stuff... Plus i need to enable profiling info > (gmon.out) so that i can profile it using gprof. > Maybe i got off to a bad start.. so i want to try again properly. > > Could you give me some guide/intructions on how to compile water.c? and where > do i find the complete list of header and function files needed to compile > with water.c? > > Please advise. > > Justin > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > EMBOSS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss > > _______________________________________________ > EMBOSS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss > _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
