MK> I agree wholeheartedly.  So where are the Windows 
 MK> compilers?  Do you have
 MK> one?

 MG> Yes. I tried to compile it with Open Watcom, and got 
 MG> tons of errors. As Bo Simonsen posted, all the stuff 
 MG> that's Linux specific needs to be changed with an 
 MG> "#ifndef Unix" statement in order for it to compile 
 MG> correctly. I'm no programmer, so I haven't a clue as to 
 MG> what needs to be changed.

The maximus / squish code was developed and compiled with an older Watcom
compiler (pre-Open Watcom), and used DMAKE for a make subsystem.  Without
understading the environment (defines, etc.) that needs to be setup, you
probably will fail to get a good compile.  You also need to pick up either
Bison or Yacc to compile maximus, and for Win32 and OS/2 environments, may
also need to pick up an old copy of MASM (which used to be available on one
of Microsoft's web sites).  With out proper defines, the code will fail to
compile.  With Watcom and the proper defines, you could cross compile the
code for DOS, OS/2 and Win32 systems on a single system, for both 16-bit
and 32-bit target binaries.  No, I haven't done this with the GPL'ed
Maximus code, because I never got DMAKE to properly run under OS/2....  I'd
now want to use GNU Make instead of DMAKE, which will still require re-work
of some of the make files for using in a DOS, OS/2 and/or Win32
environment.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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