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to: Darrick Burch
from: Mvan Le
date: 2012-08-30 14:17:10
subject: WIN7 Maximus?

>> I might be forced to abandon my Linux BBS box due to old age and lack
>> of fun to replace it ...

>> Ran Maximus before and liked it ...

> I know this is old but I just happen to be playing with the UNIX port of
> Maximus this week.  I played with the code briefly under Cygwin but I
> eventually changed my mind about working on it in Windows and did it in
> Linux.  It compiled after some coaxing, but there are serious problems with
> the MEX compiler.  The README alludes to this (still unresolved) issue, so
> I'm tempted to try fixing it.  I wanted to learn yacc and how to use GDB
> anyway.

Compiling under Windows requires the proprietary Watcom C/C++ Version 10
and 11c libraries (Open Watcom will not work). I have assembled a
distribution archive of all the build tools necessary to compile Maximus
3.02 (2.63 gb) under windows. I successfully compiled the DOS, OS/2 and
Win32 binaries and tested some minor code changes in 2006.

Let me know if you want the build tools (mvanle{at}users.sourceforge.net).

> By the way, I'm playing with the 3.03b tar.gz files from Sourceforge.  That
> *IS* the latest version of the source code, isn't it?

Althought I appreciate the efforts to port Maximus to Linux, I firmly
believe that development of the DOS and Win32 versions would be more
worthwhile because the best programs written for BBSes are for DOS.

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