Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/18/10:37:53
In article <332e2ca5 DOT 271959937 AT news DOT wwa DOT com>, sam AT devin DOT org (Sam Speel) wrote:
>On Sun, 09 Mar 97 03:44:40 GMT, pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu (Paul Peavyhouse)
>wrote:
>
>> Someone once posted a copy of their makefile they they used to
>>successfully compile the Quake source codes under DOS/DJGPP. Could someone
>>please repost that file?
>> Also, I have been trying to figure out this one all day. The DJGPP
>>library is what is used to compile Quake. The problem is that DJGPP does not
>>come with <sys/socket.h> nor <netdb.h>. I have found the IBM-PC version of
>>the files in the Cygnus Win-32 port of the gcc compiler and now have both the
>>DJGPP and the Cygnus compilers on my computer. My question now is, how can
>>both DJGPP and Cygnus peacefully coexist as my GCC compilers? Or do they even
>
>>need to? Can I combine them both into ONE include directory? The DJGPP
>>"make" doesn't like the Cygnus source code, but the Cygnus "make" doesn't seem
>
>>to mind the DJGPP source code. Any suggestions here? Thanks!
>>
>> PV
>>______________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Paul Peavyhouse
>> http://www.cs.montana.edu/~pv
>> email: pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu
>>______________________________________________________________________________
>
>Paul (or anyone else who reads this thread),
>Would you be so kind as to post the source to this group? We
>unfortunates who weren't able to track down the source would still
>like to get to look at. I don't even need to build the thing... just
>purely curiosity.
>
>Anyone feeling uncomfortable about posting the source could always do
>so anonymously...
Sorry, but I do not feel comfortable doing that either way.
It is not my position to either condone nor comdemn sharing this code
(globally, I think it would do us all good to look at, but that is not fair to
ID, and I respect ID Software too much to hurt them like that). Besides, I
may not even have MY copy anymore.
Since I cannot stop that which has already been done (BTW: go to
http://www.medcom.se/news/970227.html to get info on the theft of the
Quake source code...I'm sure that's not the last we will hear of it), I will
tell you that doing global Archie searches on a regular basis will turn up
something every now and then. The file is out there, and all you have to do
is find it before the admins do. http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ftpsearch is also
another good reference, although their links tend to be older than the ftp
server's current status (ie: most files are deleted soon after ftpsearch
enters them in its database). Still, you may get lucky.
Sorry people, but I personally don't think ID Software deserves to
have their source code pirated around, they are by far too decent a company to
do that to. However, I would respect ID Software even more if they would just
bite the bullet on this and officially release the source code...afterall,
from what I hear about Quake2, and John Carmack's "not having to support DOS
anymore", they are still so far ahead of the competition (anyone rememeber
Into The Shadows?) that it really wouldn't hurt them. It's inevitable that by
the end of this year every serious coder is going to have a copy, so why fight
it? Just my opinion...
PV
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Paul Peavyhouse
http://www.cs.montana.edu/~pv
email: pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu
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