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From: tma@m5.COM (Tim Atkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: extending Smalltalk with C (was Re: using lex/yacc with smalltalk ?)
Message-ID: <4670@m5.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 00:46:19 GMT
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Reply-To: tma@m5.UUCP (Tim Atkins)
Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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>Depends on the version. For pre-Windows Smalltalk-80, you need the
>PharLap DOS extender and Metaware High-C. For Windows versions, you
>need only the MetaWare High-C compiler and PharLap's 386LINK linker.
>And you don't need "assembly glue" for most purposes.
>
This is clearly not very good news (well not really news) for Windows
developers.  Ideally I should not need anything to add C access to
ST 80 that is not already part of a more or less normal Window developers
kit just as I need nothing arcane on supported Unix platforms.  In
addition to the hefty price of ST80 under windows for non-students,
adding the fairly substantial prices of the above two items is truly
burdensome.  Glue supporting DLL usage as is normal for windows
would be MUCH appreciated.  Digitalk got this one right.

- Tim