Hello George

Replying to a message of George De Bruin to All:

 GDB> I have just installed EMX/GCC 0.9a on my system from the December '95

 GDB> First question: When I installed EMX/GCC, I opted not to install the
 GDB> GPP or Objective C portions.  Should I have installed them even
 GDB> though I am not going to be using C++ or Objective C in my code?

I didn't install them.

 GDB> I've decided for my first task to take a set of code written for BC++
 GDB> and convert it to compile under EMX/GCC.  This is the first task,
 GDB> and should be fairly simple (I'm only getting about 60 lines of
 GDB> warnings / errors right now, and most of them seem to have 2 or 3
 GDB> common elements).

I did this as well.

 GDB> Once I have it compiling (and running) successfully, the next task is
 GDB> to re-write/clean up the code.  This should give me the chance to
 GDB> investiage the EMX/GCC libraries, and facilities in a more complete
 GDB> manner.

Yep.

 GDB> After this, I throw out the code, and start on my own project from
 GDB> scratch. (whee!)

I've started to look at threads.

 GDB> Question: how do I get GCC to allow re-directing the error output to
 GDB> a file?  I thought that the -e would do it, but when I tried it, I
 GDB> ended up with a 0 byte file on my disk, and the error output on the
 GDB> screen.

I don't know.

 GDB> Question: what is the ffblk struct in BC++?  Is there an equivalent
 GDB> struct in GCC/EMX?  (This one seems to be what is causing about half
 GDB> of the problems in compiling this code....)

In Turbo C, its in the DIR.H file.

If this is for findfirst(), I found that I could use access().  This could
be used in Turbo as well.  The dos programs I converted now compile under
Turbo C and EMX/GCC with a few strategically placed #ifdef __TURBOC__ and
#ifdef __EMX__ 

 GDB> Question: What is _setcursortype() function in BC++?  Is there an
 GDB> equivalent function in GCC/EMX?

Look at v_ctype().  I seem to remember that if you use v_gotoxy(), printf()
doesn't know about the cursor position - you have to use v_printf() 

Alan

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