Thu 2003-02-06 17:22, Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1) wrote to andrew clarke:

 RT>> Downloaded the sources from your site fot TimEd, and from the
 RT>> quick look I  had time to give the sources, there is no indication
 RT>> of whether it will build  on Linux or not.

 ac> I've only tested it in FreeBSD and Cygwin, but it _should_ port to
 ac> Linux if you edit the makefile to use -lsmapilnx instead of -lsmapibsd
 ac> (it requires smapi-2.3; I haven't tried linking it with xmsgapi yet,
 ac> but I should :)).

RT> Hmm ... okay, as soon as I have time, I will give it a bash, must first also 
RT> download smapi-2.3 as I think the last version I have is 2.0 and will get 
RT> xmsgapi as well.

I got timEd to work using XMSGAPI.  No major changes, but there's a problem
with the XMSGAPI 1.5 makefile in that it doesn't add putword.o to
libxmsgapi.a, so you'll need to add putword.o to
xmsgapi/unix/gnu-c/makefile, or just wait for XMSGAPI 1.6 to be released,
along with timEd 1.11.a4 (coming soon).

As you may have noticed by the tearline, I did get timEd to compile under
Linux, but I'm running the Linux binary using FreeBSD's Linux translation
module (a bit like an emulator).  Seems to work just like the native
FreeBSD version.

 ac> Strange - unless you mean the current version in the CVS hosted by
 ac> SourceForge (?).

RT> No, MsgEd ver. 6.0&1, seems the system needs newer libraries and I am not 
RT> going to even attempt upgrading them.

I really doubt you need newer libraries to compile those, since there's
nothing intrinsically "new" to the Msged/SMAPI code.  It just
uses standard UNIX stuff.  So it's either a Makefile problem, or maybe a
missing #include, or you're missing some important header files/libraries
on your Linux machine, but without seeing the error message(s) I can only
guess.

FWIW, I use SuSE 6.2 (1999) (running under VMware in Windows 2000) for testing.

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