[linrad] Re: Error exit (and multi-platform)

[Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

73's,
Bob
N4HY




leif@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > > > It would be nice to have a Makefile under Linux that would
> > > > output executables automatically for several platforms;-)
> > > >        
> > > Indeed. There are several possibilities -- Java, Mono, Python, 
> > >      
> > and more -- 
> >    
> >
> > > but your preceding remarks suggest they'd be less than 
> > >      
> > satisfactory to you :-)
> >
> > Is Leif suggesting that a Windows version of Linrad would be less 
> > satisfactory to Him fdue to matters of choice, or is he suggesting that 
> > there are performance issues?
> >    
>
> The problem is that I have no idea at all how to produce executable
> files under MS Windows. I could easily make a version for MSDOS using
> the Watcom C compiler and the graphics package it contains, but it seems
> to me that that obsolete software package would not support any reasonably
> recent soundcards. Another limitation is that memory is limited to
> 16 megabytes under DOS4GW.
>
> I am waiting for help. Bob, N4HY has promised to look into it
> after Dayton, maybe I know more one month from now:-)
>
> I do not know enough aboout Windows to have any idea whether there will
> be any performance issues. Windows is a server-client system for
> graphics (as I have been told) while svgalib writes directly to the card.
> Maybe there will be some limitationd for this reason but that can surely
> be managed one way or another. It will certainly not be necessary to
> put pixels on the screen one by one as Linrad is doing now although a
> change would mean some new code.
>
> 73
>
> Leif / SM5BSZ
>
>
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