Re: Beta release of gawk 3.1.6 now available - MinGW and DJGPP builds

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:46:56 +0200
> From: Manuel Collado <address@hidden>
> 
> ----- MingGW build
> 
> Eli Zaretskii escribió:
> > ...
> > Here are the patches I used for my build:
> > ...
> 
> Thank you very much. Your patches work ok in my machine.

Thanks for testing.

> Besides the recommended build procedure, I've also naively attempted a 
> ./configure & make build. Suprisingly, it works ok on one machine, but 
> ./configure aborts on a similar one (sorry, the abort message scrolled 
> quickly out of the window). I still have to grab and diagnose it.

Did you build on plain DOS or on Windows?  If the latter, on which
version of Windows was that?

> The successful build passes all but 7 tests. The diffs are at:
> 
>    http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado/gawk/djgpp/fail.log

Some tests are known to fail with DJGPP (they should announce
themselves).  The reason is features that aren't supported in the
DJGPP port, such as networking or pipes.

> You possibly know, I'm a member of the xgawk team. We really need 
> support for dynamic extensions. There is some advice in 
> README_d/README.pcdynamic, and in the DJGPP documentation of dlopen() 
> and related stuff. Do you have pointers to additional documentation, or 
> (better) working sample code?

I don't think anyone's got dynamic linking to work reliably in DJGPP.
I've seen some concept demonstration code, but that's all.