[perl #41243] Link on Win32 with Borland C++

[Will Coleda]

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Need details.

[Steve Peters via RT]

On Thu Jan 11 08:57:22 2007, coke wrote:
> Need details.

A recent patch has gotten Parrot to the point that it can be compiled
with Borland C++ on Win32. Unfortunately, it does not link correctly to
actually create a valid parrot executable. Additional configuration is
needed to make Borland compile and link Parrot so that it can actually
be run and tested.

[Andrew Whitworth]

I'll pick up borland and play with it, although I won't get to it
until the next cycle. I've got a really old version of Turbo C++ 4.52
left over from school, and free versions of Turbo C++ Explorer are
available for download. I don't promise any miracles, but at least I
will be able to prove that some errors still exist or not.

--Andrew Whitworth

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Will Coleda via RT
<parrotbug...@parrotcode.org> wrote:

> Without a champion for this compiler, there's not much we can do; Our current targets for
> Windows include, as I understand it, cygwin, strawberry perl and its build system, and recent
> versions of VisualC++. Borland isn't in our core list for the upcoming 1.0 release.
>
> If we do find a Borland champion, they should open a new ticket at https://trac.parrot.org/.
>
> Rejecting this ticket; Regards.
>
> --
> Will "Coke" Coleda
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[Will Coleda]

Unless this task would make you exceedingly happy, I wouldn't bother.

IMO, there are much higher priority things requiring tuits than trying
to add a fourth compiler for windows, especially before the 1.0
release.

Regards.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Ron Blaschke <r...@rblasch.org> wrote:
>> Some time ago, because of this ticket, I tried with Borland C++ 5.5.1
>> and 5.82, and failed miserably. But that may just be my bad bcc-foo.
>> Unless someone's keen for this platform and has access to a fairly new
>> ("within two years") version (is it called C++ Builder now?), I'm not
>> sure if this is worth pursuing.
>
> The free version of "Turbo C++ Builder" is called "Turbo C++
> Explorer". Should be the same thing, minus some features. If I can get
> it to work with the most recent version of that, I can try digging
> back through older versions to find compatibility problems.
>
> --Andre Whitworth
>

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

[Steve Peters]

> Some time ago, because of this ticket, I tried with Borland C++ 5.5.1
> and 5.82, and failed miserably. But that may just be my bad bcc-foo.
> Unless someone's keen for this platform and has access to a fairly new
> ("within two years") version (is it called C++ Builder now?), I'm not
> sure if this is worth pursuing.
>

> Ron
>

The issue I ran into at the time was that dmake, which was the usual
make program used with bcc32, is not capable of handling the Parrot
make file. I believe it could work with gmake on win32, but I hadn't
really attempted anything down that direction since I was encountering
too many other issues following a major restructuring of the headers
that had occurred.

Steve