Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rh2y+ From: rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) Newsgroups: comp.os.os9 Subject: Re: G++ for OS-9/68000 wanted Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 04:50:08 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 55 please! DO post the binaries! I HATE waiting umpteen hours for something to compile, only to find some little subtle bug, and hafta start over... If you have regular gcc binaries, POST THEM, TOO! I was just tonight trying to port gnuplot, only to find that even after some moderately serious modification to the makefile, I got a *** compiler error - transexp *** after some not incredibly complicated section of code. Granted, I LIKE the Microware C compiler - It does absolute WONDERS when using it to write my own code. But, when it comes to trying to port some neat Unix application, you may as well be speaking swahili to a Mexican -- it just don't work! I would be willing to PAY BIG BUX (hint, hint guys at Microware :-) for a really awesome C compiler that did a relatively nice job with non-os9-specific code. Don't get me wrong -- I know it may be a gargantuan task, but I absolutely DETEST Ms-Dos people who have neeto versions of all sorts of cool software that I can't touch with a ten-foot pole 'cuz my compiler chokes on it. BTW - if anybody HAS successfully ported GNUplot, please post it to the ftp site (binaries and source, if you would please :-) For that matter, I'd really like to get my hands on (as I'm sure all of us would) the following stuff: gcc g++ TeX (well, somebody's already working on sending me a copy, which I will gladly post to smilodon when I get it !) gnuplot maple (or some other handy-dandy Mathematica-like program) Also, I'd like to see _any_ P.D. software that people happen to have lying around posted. Not to toot my own horn, but I posted all the stuff that I've ever written for myself that I find useful (even some stuff I don't find useful) just in the odd chance that somebody out there might find that he likes something there. Honestly, with as many OS-9 users as there are out there (~1 million? more? i don't really know..), I can't imagine that there aren't a significant number who have FTP access and also have some code lying around that they don't mind contributing. Have you ever seen what 10 million Amiga users can do? (I'm not an Amiga user, my roommate is. 95% of the useful software he uses on his box was written by people like you and me and was contributed to the infamous Fred Fish disk collection. ) I know I'm sounding a bit preachy, but I've been in the OS-9 racket ever since I was 14 years old. Now that I'm in my sophomore year in college, I'm finding more and more that I want to stray away from OS-9 because there isn't much P.D. stuff available, and much of the truly useful commercial stuff is very expensive. Mach and Unix are looking ever more inviting to me, though I generally have a hard time swallowing some of their pricetags. As a matter of somewhat religious objections, MS-DOS is not a viable alternative :-) At least I hope it never comes to that... Anyway --- there's my two cents worth. (Raise flame shields, Sulu...) Russell Hoffman rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University