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Messages - Dave Yeo

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  Have a possibly dumb question, not being a programmer: is it possible to produce OS/2 executables with GCC inside of Linux? If so, would make compiling large apps easier, no?

In theory, it is quite possible. In practice, it would mean recompiling most of our tool chain on Linux as Linux binaries as a start, using our headers and libs and who knows what else. How much porting would be required in the recompilation is unknown, we'd also be porting to 64bit. There may be a chicken and egg problem too, needing cross compiled tools to cross compile.

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What would need to be changed in ARCAOS to have a modern network?

**ChatGPT Response:**
To implement or improve a modern network in ArcaOS, several changes and enhancements would be necessary, as ArcaOS (a development of OS/2) has a more limited network architecture compared to modern operating systems like Windows or Linux. Here are some key changes that would need to be made:

1. **Updating the Network Stack Software**:
   - **TCP/IP Stack**: ArcaOS uses the "IBM TCP/IP for OS/2" stack, which has not been maintained for a long time. Updating or switching to a more modern network stack (e.g., `inetd` or an open-source project) could improve network performance and compatibility.
   - **IPv6 Support**: The current TCP/IP stack in ArcaOS only supports IPv4. To support modern networks, IPv6 would need to be implemented or at least complemented with a compatible IPv6 stack.

This is really the main thing, most of the other points are already covered or things like WiFi, a different discussion.

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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« on: March 21, 2025, 04:14:09 pm »
Another up coming problem is IPv6, which luckily for us is taking forever to catch on. Eventually we would need a new network stack.

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General Discussion / Re: OS2World Site Update
« on: March 20, 2025, 07:17:12 am »
Hi Martin

Looks good in Seamonkey  :-)


Same, the new icon now shows up. The menu is at the top of the page instead of on the left, that's fine.
Good work.

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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 17, 2025, 12:38:37 am »
The one in \usr\lib\log is the logging version for debugging. Put back your original.
Perhaps reinstall and reboot? I take it you are using Pentium 4 as a platform.

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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 16, 2025, 08:20:52 pm »
Do you have another libcn0.dll installed?

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Internet / Re: Dooble releases-Qt6
« on: March 16, 2025, 02:34:56 am »
The cloudflare thing seems to depend on cookies as well. I can load sites like Slashdot and Sourceforge fine in SeaMonkey, been loading them for years. I had Dooble fail earlier with Slashdot though today it loaded.
This site fails here with SeaMonkey and Dooble, though Dooble got further, https://steamdb.info/
Edit: slashdot fails when I try to login with the cloudflare crap.

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Internet / Re: Dooble releases-Qt6
« on: March 16, 2025, 02:07:44 am »
Yes, it has been a problem for a while. Interestingly I notice the list of affected browsers includes otter-browser but not Dooble. Is otter-browser still that well used?
Just updated otter-browser, most commits are about porting to Qt6. CmakeLists.txt still only looks for Qt5

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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 16, 2025, 12:40:59 am »
After updating, the same export is available, curl runs fine. My guess is that you have another libcn installed.
As Paul said, run bldlevel, should show File Version: 0.1.13

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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 16, 2025, 12:13:44 am »
libc version 0.1.13-1 is installed

Hmm, I have 0.1.12-1 installed and the last export from this version is,
Code: [Select]
"___libc_touch" @2026Which is the missing export according to the sys2070's in your popuplog.os2.
I see that 1.13.-1 is available, I'll update, reboot and see if upstream screwed up with the new release.

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Marketplace / Re: ebay Stuff
« on: March 15, 2025, 07:05:59 pm »
While true that international shipping can be expensive, I've seen wildly different shipping quotes that lead me to believe some try to profit from the shipping or handling.

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Ideal would be recompiling it if easy, cdrecord used a weird build system that only supported EMX.
Another idea is to package libc05 separately and have a dependency.

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Applications / Re: OpenOffice 4.1.6 fatal error, any solutions?
« on: March 14, 2025, 11:55:37 pm »
Most of the files in \usr\lib can be marked high. Exceptions include libc and libcx and as Tellie found, ft2.
If you get crashes, look at the trp report or popuplog and hopefully the crash will point to a DLL

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The usual is to have a source RPM which is built while building the package. If the source is in a stable place, simply putting a link to the source should be good enough.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Updated qt5 files?
« on: March 14, 2025, 01:17:54 am »
Strange, guess you're running out of memory, or maybe a profile problem. They import fine here, does take a few minutes.

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