On Friday, June 26, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> My goal is a little hazy right now. I would like to learn more about 
> the simh simulator API if it's called that. But no real goal there yet. 
> As too simulating something. I would like to compile, like the old 
> version allowed -DUSE_NETWORK=0 I think was the define at 
> compile time. I guess I liked the choice. I never really go online 
> with vax or pdp11 much anyway. HTH

As I've said below, the current build will build a simulator which include the 
'capabilities' that your build environment has available.

Just because you've built a simulator which is network capable, doesn't mean 
that you will be forced to run your simulator with network devices enabled or 
with network devices connected to any particular network.

If you don't want your simulator to run with a network connection, then don't 
enabled the network device and don't attempt to connect it.

- Mark
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm 
To: Bill Cunningham ; [email protected] 
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 12:34 AM
Subject: RE: [Simh] pdp11 and vax network

Hi Bill,

Anything is possible, however, what is the real goal behind your question?

If your build environment doesn't have the necessary components to support 
network activities, then you can't build binaries with network support.  The 
makefile looks around for components which are available on the build system 
and the binaries are built which will work on that system.  Even if libpcap is 
available on the build system, the binaries dynamically load libpcap at runtime 
so binaries built on a system with the necessary pieces will actually run on a 
different host of the same platform type and provide libpcap networking support 
if the executing system has libpcap available and not if it isn't available.

Please explain what you are trying to achieve.

Thanks.

-        Mark

From: Simh [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Cunningham
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 8:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Simh] pdp11 and vax network

    Is it possible anymore to compile the emulators without networking support 
naymore. Or is that choice gone. I noticed at compile time there's a lot of 
dynamic libraries here being linked in at compile time.
 
Bill
 

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