[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, that's today's "something new" then. I had no idea that > assembly under Linux would be so different to Windows. (Which > assembler do you use on Windows by the way?)
It used to be TASM (Turbo Assembler), but when Borland discontinued it and certain bugs made development difficult I switched to MASM (Microsoft Assembler). TASM was the far superior choice when I started out but fortunately MASM has caught up a bit in the meantime and now is up to the task. >> It might be more sensible to continue using a Windows assembler and >> hoping that the Linux linker can cope with the resulting object >> format. Not sure how well that would work out. > I suspect it wouldn't like it one little bit. Too different from the > ELF format used on Linux. Well, the ld man page says it could work, but in practice... who knows. > If it could use the Windows files, we wouldn't need Wine and so on, > we could just do a LoadLibrary() or similar system call I suppose. No, that's an entirely different topic. Object file linking could work, but this of course does not change the fact that it uses a lot of Win32 API calls. > Yes I remember an early version that I had worked fine on an old PC > of mine. When I upgraded the PC, it failed with a divide by zero > error because of some timing loop configuration whatsname was > running far too fast on the new PC! Yes, but that problem was only the installer, which was programmed in Turbo Pascal. Its runtime library had a notorious bug which resulted in the described problem when ran on a too fast PCs. > I may be able to use the CVS version for free though - but I cannot > get to that URL from here. Will try later at home if Alison gives me > some play time! Well, but if you're concerned that you don't have enough time to give Cedega a quick spin then I'm not sure you're ready to port QPC, something that is certainly equivalent to a fulltime job for a few months ;) > At work I have a similar PC with 2G of RAM and that struggles to > run VMWare as well. With a Windows build it takes 20 minutes to load Windows. > Completely unworkable I'm afraid. Strange, the performance I've heard of is far better than that. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
