I was planning to download the windows gcc anyway, as it happens (I have
the full Linux setup too, for cross-checking), so at some point I might
try investigating this. One point about the Windows build is that I
don't run Bison (though I have some elderly verison on my Windows
machine), I just build the parser.tab.c as supplied.
Funnily enough, I thought last light I might as well remove my old
Windows build of sfront from my website as it is very out of date, and I
am no longer adding anything to the canonical one. It is probable that
through John Fitch I can get space on the Bath university 'dream' server
to host a full Windows distribution with examples (not enough space on
my personal system), if that is useful. We are generally expanding
'dream' to host more programs, not just Csound.
Richard Dobson
John Lazzaro wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> After more experimentation, I can safely
> say that gcc 2.7 creating DOS binaries (whether
> under Win/DOS itself or as a cross-compiler) isn't
> able to create a robust sfront binary -- I went
> back to truly ancient sfront's, and was able to
> reproduce the errors reported earlier. Given that
> the only pre-built cross-compilers I could find
> were based on gcc 2.7, I've decided to discontinue
> doing a binary Windows distribution for sfront --
> from now on, there will be a Linux binary pair,
> and a pair of generic source distributions that
> should compile under UNIX and Windows.
>
> The only open issue is whether the gcc
> 2.9X compiler series, running under DOS, also
> has this problem -- this is the version of gcc
> currently offered for download on the sfront
> page for compiler-less Windows users. Since I'm
> borrowing someone else's machine to do these
> experiments, I'm a bit reticent to update his
> compiler installation for him :-) -- so, if
> anyone out could try out building the sfront
> 0.56 using the 2.9X compiler on the website
> under Windows, and let me know one way or the
> other, I'll update the webpage accordingly.
>
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/sfman/user/install/index.html#download
>
> Sorry about all the interruptions on
> this issue, I guess that old maxim from my VLSI
> design world -- "if you don't test it, it doesn't
> work" -- counts for software too :-)
>
> --jl
-- Test your DAW with my Soundcard Attrition Page! http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/rwd (LU: 17th September 1999) CDP: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/CDP/CDP.htm (LU: 4th November 1999)
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