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- From: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Brad Hines)
- Subject: Re: GCC
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:07:15 GMT
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- >In article <JODY.92Nov5082601@colorado.shell.com>, jody@shell.com (Jody Winston) writes:
- >Has anyone ported gcc to run on NT? If not, is there documentation on
- >Microsoft's compiler input format or the object file format and the
- >executable format?
-
-
- There is a port of GCC to OS/2, so in theory it should be able to run under
- NT. However, there is a problem (one which I have had with a number of
- OS/2 character-mode programs), in that many OS/2 programs (and I'm pretty
- sure I recall that GCC is one of them) check first to see whether
- you're trying to run them in an OS/2 DOS box instead of an OS/2 command
- prompt window. If you are, they say "This program cannot be run in
- DOS mode". Such a program, when run under NT, prints out this message
- and then terminates. I'm going to complain about this on CI$ this
- weekend to see what they say about it.
-
- In theory, if we can get past that point, it should work as-is, I think.
- Gnu Emacs has also been ported to OS/2, but it won't work under NT yet
- because it uses ANSI screen-control sequences, which NT doesn't support
- yet.
-
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- Brad Hines
- Internet: brad@huey.jpl.nasa.gov
- Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California
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