Borland and Watcom support for SDL 1.3?

SDL Development
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Is anybody interested in maintaining the Borland and Watcom projects
for SDL 1.3?–
-Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC

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Are these compilers still being used at all?

I have the feeling that their use has been drecreasing along the last few
years.

Cheers,
PauloOn Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Is anybody interested in maintaining the Borland and Watcom projects
for SDL 1.3?

–
-Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC

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C++ Builder is still in use and under active development, though it’s no longer
owned by Borland. Not sure about Watcom, though. Never heard of them.________________________________

From: pjmlp@progtools.org (Paulo Pinto)
Subject: Re: [SDL] Borland and Watcom support for SDL 1.3?

Are these compilers still being used at all?

I have the feeling that their use has been drecreasing along the last few years.

Cheers,
Paulo

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Is anybody interested in maintaining the Borland and Watcom projects

for SDL 1.3?

–
-Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC

SDL mailing list
SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

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Sam Lantinga wrote:

Is anybody interested in maintaining the Borland and Watcom projects
for SDL 1.3?

No watcom, but I’ve got BCC builder 5 and also the free Borland compiler.

What do I need to do to get started and (more importantly) finished?

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Sam Lantinga ha scritto:

Is anybody interested in maintaining the Borland and Watcom projects
for SDL 1.3?

We use the SDL library with Open Watcom, creating an import library

from the Visual C DLL (we don’t compile the library itself with open
watcom) and using an include file to specify some linking info.

I'll take a look at the source next week so I can see if i can take

care of the Open Watcom stuff.

BTW, the compiler is a good one, with some ANSI C99 compliance that

make me prefer it over Visual C (apart from teh size / price / license
issue).

Daniele Forghieri
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Sam Lantinga ha scritto:

Is anybody interested in maintaining the Borland and Watcom projects
for SDL 1.3?

I filled some bugs (#814, #815, #816 & #817) and updated the watcom.zip

file (#818) to compile the SDL 1.3 library with Open Watcom 1.8

Maybe is better (and easier to mantain) to put the watcom directory

directory under SVN control: there are only two text files.

Thanks

	Daniele Forghieri
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CWC wrote in news:4AB540B0.7050504 at blackfoot.net:

Sam Lantinga wrote:

Is anybody interested in maintaining the Borland and Watcom projects
for SDL 1.3?

No watcom, but I’ve got BCC builder 5 and also the free Borland compiler.

What do I need to do to get started and (more importantly) finished?

I can help with this as well since I use the free borland compiler quite
often. Is SDL going to use any kind of portable makefile generator such as
cmake, premake or bakefile? It would make it easier to keep all the
different makefiles in sync for the supported tools.