Re: [REQADM-Users-L] windows and freebsd

[Steve W. <st...@al...>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andrey Popovich wrote:
> I just downloaded REQADM-1.3.1 from SourceForge and trying to build it 
> on my FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE machine. After configure script proceed, it 
> generate Builg.<balh-blah> directory with zero-size Makefile. Is there 
> some tricks to build it on current BSD releases?

That's odd.  I just built a copy on a 4.10-RELEASE system.  I can't imagine
there'd be anything that different in 4.11 to upset REQADM's build.  You 
might want to start by making sure your source tarball isn't corrupt or
truncated, or that something didn't interrupt the configure script somehow.

> Also is it possible to build client for Windows 2000/XP systems?

We did manage to get xreqadm to build on Windows 2000, and it worked 
reasonably well, but never really finished that off in a production-worthy
level before the project ended and transitioned to an Open-Source endeavor.
At this point, we're working on our plans for the 2.0 release, which will
significantly change how the clients and servers will function, so we haven't
gone back to complete the old 1.3 client port to Windows, but plan to have
the 2.0 version work with Windows.

If you want to take it on yourself, it's not all that complicated to do,
if you can just set up the Tcl/Tk libraries on your Windows system and 
compile it all up.  The main problem we had was that in the 1.3 version
we use ET (Embedded Tk) to preprocess the Tcl GUI code into C, and this
makes source lines too long for Microsoft's C compiler to accept.  So you
will probably want to use GCC or something.

> And final question: maybe you have new version? Or CVS access?

We're regrouping a bit after not having a chance to work on REQADM much
last year.  I was just talking to my co-developer and we're gearing up
to plan out the 2.0 release, and we'll make details of that available on
the sourceforge site when we have our plans worked out in more detail.

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