Compiling for Windows/dos

[Jay2]

Hi!

I would desesperatly like to compile bbe under a windows 2000 environnement. Has anyone ever done so? Is there and easy way with djgpp?

Thanks,
Jerome Marchand

[pif]

I had the same question today and solved it by compiling the code with mingw :
from a cygwin console, with mingw64-i686-gcc-core package installed, I ran
./configure CC=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
Compilation works fine, and resulting exe is ok under Windows XP and Seven, but under Windows 2000, "r" commands do nothing.
After some tests, it seems off_t type is weirdly defined thus in bbe.h line 52, I removed #ifdef and force define to be :

#define off_t long int

Seems enough at least for the small usage i'm concerned with.

[Timo Savinen]

Yes, it is a typo, I have probably ment something like:

typedef long int off_t;

Timo

[Alexey Anisimov]

Hi,

I had it compiled on windows, with the help of http://www.mingw.org/
I have to enable binary file mode explicitly, otherwise it stops on first 0x1A (EOF) character.
In addition to bbe.h line 52 i've also changed:

buffer.c

1. line 56
   from out_stream.fd = open(file,O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC,S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH);
   to out_stream.fd = open(file,O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY,S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
2. line 100
   from new->fd = open(file,O_RDONLY);
   to new->fd = open(file,O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);

execute.c

1. line 420 from fseeko to fseeko64
2. line 550 from c->fd = fopen(file,"w"); to c->fd = fopen(file,"wb");
3. line 584 from c->fd = fopen(c->s1,"w"); to c->fd = fopen(c->s1,"wb");
4. line 602 from c->fd = fopen(c->s1,"r"); to c->fd = fopen(c->s1,"rb");
5. line 616 frim c->fd = fopen(c->s1,"r"); to c->fd = fopen(c->s1,"rb");

then it compiles fine and works well. thanks!