At 02:15 PM 3/20/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Whatever -- the point is that rewriting and reinvention of the wheel for the
>single purpose that it is more convenient to have it included in wine is a
>bit silly. We require a C compiler (for now we require gcc with is OK IMO),
>we require a make program (don't know if gmake is required though), perl,
>yacc, lex, etc. It would be simply silly to reimplement all this programs
>simply because some systems don't have them. They are free on the net,
>download them.
While it's always bad to reinvent the wheel, it is not always so; it depends
on how well the existing wheels are adapted.
My impression is that the syntax of resource files is somewhat strange, and
gcc is a bit sensitive to complex syntax (as wine compilation problems have already
proved) so maybe problems could occur because some people are using gcc 2.91,
some gcc 2.95, other (someday) a newer version.
Under Windows, the existing resource compilers are integrated with the
preprocessor of the software editor; AFAIK nobody uses the Ms preprocessor
with the Borland resource compiler. Maybe using a 'standard' tool will be more
complex in fact than using an ad hoc tool. The only way to be sure is trying it.
Gerard
