patch: MC for Win32
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Mon Nov 19 23:51:25 UTC 2001
Hello, Franco!
> so here's my patch for mc on Win32.
Thank you very much! I appreciate that you documented your changes so
carefully. I'm quite overwhelmed with work now and the worst thing is
that I still have no internet at home (Verizon doesn't consider it as
critical as phone connection), so it will take some time before I apply
your changes.
Just some quick notes about one of your comments.
> - You also need gettext ( i.e. my gettext port
> http://home.a-city.de/franco.bez/gettext/gettext_win32_en.html )
What if we disable NLS support for now until gettext is ported properly to
Win32? Extra dependencied mean extra hurdles for potential developers.
> I added the two files
>
> mc/pc/regex.c
> mc/pc/regex.h
>
> from the mc-4.1.36 distribution.
> This is just a quick fix.
> As the new distribution no longer contains
> mc/src/regex.h
> and
> mc/src/regex.c
> was giving trouble.
That's not true. src/regex.c is still there. src/regex.h has been
renamed to src/eregex.h (it looks like that, there are no ChangeLog
entries).
I believe that you should have regex in the system library as well. The
files included with MC are only used for some GNU-specific things.
> the mingw32 toolchain I use is
> based on gcc-2.95.2-1 , winapi-0.1.5 , mingw-runtime-20000203
> I built it from source on my Linux box.
> it uses "msvcrt" as c-runtime library.
That's very encouraging. No need to use Windows to compile MC for Windows
:-)
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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