On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:48:34 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > >> No not at all, I have just uploaded the latest version, including an update >> to some documentation/presentations in PDF format, it is at: > >PDF is a bit bloated and DOS-unfriendly, but I understand your need to >use something modern and accessible (or whatever).
Something that is rather usable on most of the supported platforms. DOS is a bit of the exception here. I used to maintain an HTML version of the same presentations too, but dropped that for space/time reasons. The sources are in OpenOffice though, so I could have a look at what th export alternatives are, to bundle into the distribution ZIP ... >already included inside TXWINLIB.ZIP, right?) Right, and they are kept up-to-dte at the websit too of course ... >First of all, typo, it says "110 Mb", which would have been quite >startling! But in reality it only jumped from 7 to 10 Mb instead. (Big >relief!) Oops, my bad. Thanks for noticing, just fixed that ... >I haven't looked closely at why the increase, but I assume >precompiled libs. (No, I only see [Mach-O] .a files.) Right, another 'oops', the intention wa to include all the libraries pre-built so you could concentrate on building some application (not the library) but I made a mistake with a 'build clean' at some point. Fixed now, and re-uploaded a cleaned up/compledted version of the ZIP Note: >From the samples, only the 'TXT' test application has non-debug versions of the executables for all the platforms, so you can see what it looks like without having the build environment ready yet ... >> >OW 1.9 runs natively in DOS. Or did you mean the makefiles need >> >adjustments? (Long cmdlines for OW tools need an asterisk/star '*' !!) >> >> Never tested that, but should not be that hard to get working >> when all the OpenWatcom stuff is available. >> >> It only uses WMAKE, the C-compiler and WLINK > >It should work fine, then. Moreso I was worried because I didn't see >any precompiled libs. (Though your page says builds atop Windows, too, >so that's fairly ubiquitous. Better than atop OS/2 only.) Right, never tested on DOS (or Linux, which also has OpenWatcom binaries) but should not be too hard to get working ... >Actually, I think somewhere you include some binaries, which >themselves are needed to rebuild some parts: TEE (OS/2 only), LXLITE >(OS/2 only), and UPX (DOS, apparently old 1.25 with non-free NRV >instead of libre UCL). They are just for convenience, and not needed to build the library, not very important for the sample either, so I just took them out of the distrubution now (and references to them) without much loss of function. Anyone buillding an app can add EXE-compression later, when desired. (which is less and less the case, with todays large hard-disks :) >* >http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/upx/upx-ucl-3.09.zip Right, I think I am using 3.94 myself at the moment (for my DFSee application). >I'm overthinking it, of course, so maybe it's not crucial that it's >all rebuildable atop DOS proper. But for mirroring to iBiblio we try >to keep things totally free/libre these days. Yes, that is one reason to take them out of this distribution, they are not really needed here ... >(I see you linked to some downloads of Win32 and OS/2 compiles of Wget. Yes, that is on that same 'Free Downloads' page but NOT part of the TxWin distribution. They can be used with my DFSee application to do version-updates from within the program itself. >I'll take another closer look later and email Jim Hall again to try to iron >out some details. Sure, just get the latest ZIP to have the cleaned up, and more complete distribution: (and remove the old unpacked stuff first, since some files were removed :) https://www.dfsee.com/download/#txwin >Thanks for your time in answering. You're welcone Regards, JvW Jan van Wijk, author of DFSee; http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
