BJ> If you manage a cross compile for OS/2, let me know.  I 
 BJ> might be willing to test it....

 ML> Damn. Got problems already.

And you are building on a Win32 system, correct?  I don't remember what
Scott said he last compiled the code on.  

 ML> Couldn't build an overlayed DOS executable when 
 ML> OVERLAY_BUILD=1 was enabled in the make file. But when 
 ML> that option was disabled two files are created:

 ML>   max.exe  (832 Kb)
 ML>   maxd.exe (1 Mb)

 ML> which is a bit confusing (ie. is max.exe overlayed or not (?)) ...

I expect it is not overlayed.  These are probably a 16 bit DOS version
(max.exe) and a 32 bit DOS version (maxd.exe), where the 32 bit version
needs certain dos extender functions to work....

 ML> Dmake complains my version of WLIB can't support 
 ML> overlays but I'm using a full installation of Watcom 
 ML> 11c. So my guess is a failed / missing option or 
 ML> missing/incorrect environment variable set in the batch 
 ML> files I'm supposed to run (snt.bat, setwc.bat, 
 ML> setwc11.bat, varnt.bat var2nt.bat etc) .

Very likely.....

 ML> The compile doesn't even get half as far when building 
 ML> the Win32 executables.

Not supprised.  You may need to run the make scripts more than once.  Some
times libraries needed to link in are compiled out of order and the first
time through you end up with a failed overall compile, but some of the
libraries are compiled that will then be found in later attempts to
recompile the code....

 ML> Squish also died.

 ML> Haven't tried the OS/2 builds.

 ML> What a show-stopper. I've lost motivation to fix it.

 ML> The installation & build instructures were so simple. But it didn't work.

Did you attempt multiple, repeated compiles using the same set of
compilation switches or the same master compile script?

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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