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Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx
From: |
Wayne Buttles |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:34:13 -0500 (EST) |
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Wayne Buttles wrote:
>
> > Located at http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/wlynx/ are four files. They
> > should be:
>
> > lynx.patch A patchfile against Lynx2-7 to compile it for Win32 under
> > Borland C++ 4.52.
>
> Regarding this patch...
>
> Well, it's really rather low-impact in the first place. Apparently the
> Win32 development environment you're using is pretty close to
> Unix/Posix. Good.
>
I attribute that to the Lynx development team for keeping Lynx so
portable. The code is _very_ compiler friendly.
> A lot of the patch has to do with avoiding SIGHUP on Win32. Is that
> because the symbol SIGHUP isn't defined, or because it acts incorrectly?
It is undefined. There isn't any "kickstart" in Win95 :-(
> In either case, it might be better to make a Lynx utility function (e.g.
> LYsignal()) to encapsulate these differences. The code already has
> Linux avoiding SIGBUS and VMS mostly avoiding SIGINT.
>
> If it's only that there is no such symbol as SIGHUP, the code should
> probably read:
>
> #ifdef SIGHUP
> (void) signal(SIGHUP, ...);
> #endif /* SIGHUP */
>
> which makes it generic.
I was winging it. I figured as long as I kept using a long unique
variable ( _WINDOWS ) it would be easy to grep later and sort
everything out.
Wayne
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx, Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/02/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx, Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/02/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx, Bela Lubkin, 1997/02/17
- Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx,
Wayne Buttles <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx, Bela Lubkin, 1997/02/18
- LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx, Wayne Buttles, 1997/02/18
- Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx, Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/02/18