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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stevie
Message-ID: <7625@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 21:12:27 GMT
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Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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In article <2887@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Brett G. Person) writes:
Re: STEVIE
>I couldn't even get it to compile under MSC 5.1!  The makefile just wouldn't
>work and the compiler complained of a fatal internal error and told me to
>call Microsoft.  I don't have turbo C, but I would suggest simply
>re-writting the makefile (Yuck!)...
>                                     .  Anybody else havbe trouble with MSC
>on this one?
>


I built it just last night using MSC 5.1 and it runs like a charm,
if you don't mind that the screen movement is rather on the woof-woof side!

In order to build it on MSDOS with MSC 5.1 you need to have a real make
program, not the half-baked, brain-damaged make which comes with the
Microsoft C compiler.  You can try abmake which was distributed on c.b.i.p
a couple of months ago. That is what I used to build stevie yesterday. The
make which microsoft provides is better than a batch file for building,
but only does half the job that make is supposed to do -- it does not
construct a dependency tree for all the objects which go into making
a target, but rather it merely examines each target in the sequence
they are specified in the file, making sure each is up to date with
respect to its dependencies. Normal Unix makefiles tend to list the
main target first with all the pieces which comprise them going
down the file in some (usually unimportant) sequence. Microsoft make
wants things the other way around, with the low-level dependencies at
the top and the final target at the bottom, so it can traverse the
list in ascending order of importance (since it does not know how to
construct that ordered list itself!). Like I said, brain-damaged.

The other thing you gotta do is to edit env.h and make sure that
DOS is defined, and that Unix, etc., are NOT defined. Also, down at
the very end of the file make sure to comment out the #define TERMCAP
statement--otherwise it will compile just fine and the linker will
give you a whole bunch of undefined symbols.

After figuring out these things I built it with the makefile provided,
with no changes and it went fine. After testing it I changed the
CFLAGS variable to be $(MODEL) -G2 -Ox (for 286 code and full optimization)
and that also builds and runs fine.


By the way, I build it with MSC5.1 on an XT clone using DTK/ERSO Bios 2.40,
a NEC V20 chip, and PC-DOS 3.30. 


Fred Smith