Re: [Circle] [NEWBIE] Running Under Win95

From: Franco (awe@mt.arias.net)
Date: 08/21/96


        You're wrong. Circle is made to run on POSIX-compliant systems.
WinNT 4.0 can run most posix-compliant programs under a prompt and therefore
it would be theoretically possible to port gcc to NT 4.
        Correct me if I'm wrong.

At 06:51 PM 8/19/96 -0500, you wrote:
>You wrote:
>> This has totally eluded me....how can I run this under Win95, or
>> does anyone suggest another platform?
>
>Well circle is designed for UNIX platforms and Win95 is not UNIX
>... though it is getting closer. Also it will not compile on a
>C++ compiler where you can't switch off C++ competely as the
>circle code uses some C++ keywords (like: class, new, ...)
>
>For me the best choice is running it under
>
>LINUX (free) or SunOS or ...
>(though I use NeXTStep but had to port the code)
>
>compile it with:
>
>gcc (C/C++ reference compiler - not avail. for Win95 yet) (free)
>
>and debug it with:
>
>gdb (free)
>
>Cat.
>
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