david wrote:
I am not a programmer, rather I am an English teacher. However I
have been thinking of doing a few things.
There is a program called Whitakers words, it is a Latin-English
dictionary program written in Ada. It runs in the Dos command
prompt.
I currently have my machine running the Windows exe version in Wine
and it runs perfect. It is not a very complicated program at all.
I noticed that there was a Linux and FreeBSD version but neither of
these version run in my install of OpenSolaris for some reason. They
both ask for something called ld-linux.so.2.
So I downloaded the source code from
users.erols.com/whitaker/wordsdev and am not wondering how I can
compile this so that it will run natively in Solaris in the terminal.
If I can get it run in the terminal, it would mean (I hope) that I
could copy and past to it and from it and that would make my work a
lot easier.
thanks for any help you all can give me.
I have netbeans and sunStudio, should I use those, and if so, ...
How do I use those?
If it turns out that getting an Ada compiler for Solaris isn't feasible,
the fact that you have source code for this program suggests another
option. Someone [1] could take the Ada source and rewrite it, perhaps in
a scripting language like python.
Although the Ada source is about 22K lines, it seems to be mostly
building some data structures and doing string manipulation. I suspect
this would be a much smaller python program.
Scott
[1] I saw the "I am not a programmer" statement above. So "someone" may
not be you. I might be interested in trying this for fun, but I'm not
sure how soon I'd get around to it.
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