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Programming / Re: Have questions about porting software to eCS?
« on: December 28, 2012, 10:09:32 am »
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wget built very easily with Paul's environment...

I assumed that that was the case, since Paul suggests starting with wget. As I said, I need some guidance, but I also need the time to tackle it again. The main objective, with this project, is to get the build environment to work with a simple project that is known to work, since others have done it. After that, it is easier to move on to more complicated projects.

FWIW, I downloaded the wget 1.14 source this evening and have run configure.  Will see what's required for me to get it building and post back here

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Programming / Re: Have questions about porting software to eCS?
« on: December 28, 2012, 01:34:34 am »
Want to try to compile Rocrail, but its using Bazaar instead of CVS. How different are those two? Is it hard / difficult to port Bazaar to OS/2-eCS? Paul, you did CVS as far as I know, how difficult was it?

yeah the build of cvs I use was built by me.  I've never looked at bazaar, but likely it is quite portable, so I will try and take a look at it.

Note Rocrail has source snapshots available too - https://launchpad.net/rocrail/sunrise/2.0/+download/rocrail-4282-sources.tar.gz

Note also, this uses wxwidgets, which doesn't work terribly well on OS/2.

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Programming / Re: Have questions about porting software to eCS?
« on: December 27, 2012, 07:39:55 am »
In terms of tools  shameless plug is http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php?page=BuildEnvDVD :)

In the absolute best case scenario, the process is:
1) extract source
2) run configure using something like:
    ash ./configure --prefix=/name_of_app --disable-shared --enable-static 2>&1 | tee configure.log
    --prefix specifies where we want to install the app - default will be /usr or /usr/local
    --disable-shared tells it not to build shared libraries (in most cases the app won't know how to build shared libraries (ie DLL's)
    --enable-static forces static libraries to be built
    2>&1 | tee configure.log puts the output from configure into a file called configure.log for debugging purposes
3) assuming configure completes:
     make 2>&1 | tee build.log
    runs make, with output of the command pipes into build.log
4) If no, errors.
    make install
    output will be put into the directory specified as prefix in 2)

I'd suggest starting with a simple command line app like wget

People seem to want to be ambitious and start with something like virtualbox!

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Porting software to OS/2 sub-forum?
« on: December 27, 2012, 07:34:32 am »
Hi Paul,

I was thinking more about someone like myself copying stuff from your posts (or others) and adding to a main "Pauls tips n tricks" one with a note at the bottom that all info came from you but has been scrapped from your posts :)


OH!!! I like that idea. Could even be a page on the EDM wiki? With a sticky link to it from here?

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Programming / Have questions about porting software to eCS?
« on: December 26, 2012, 09:44:14 am »
Hi All,

Wanting to encourage anyone who has an interest in porting software to eCS from unix, to post their questions in this forum.  I answer a lot of questions on IRC or when I see them in the newsgroups, but this forum is a far more convenient place for those questions (unless the server crashes again :P)

Cheers,

Paul

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Porting software to OS/2 sub-forum?
« on: December 26, 2012, 09:42:01 am »
My thoughts are more encouraging people to post their questions in one place - if I start trying to document tips, I'll never get any ports done :)

But I'll always try and answer peoples questions :)

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Porting software to OS/2 sub-forum?
« on: December 25, 2012, 10:38:16 pm »
Hi all,

I see we have a Programming forum - what do people think about having a separate forum (or sub-forum) for people who are wanting to learn how to do Unix ports to OS/2, either using my build environment, or their own?

Or should we just use the main programming forum?

Cheers,

Paul

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Congratulations
« on: December 25, 2012, 10:34:17 pm »
Terrific to have the site and the forums back online!

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