Rob Withers <rwithers12 at mediaone.net> is widely believed to have written:

> Hi Andreas and Tim, I am looking for a Win32VMMaker and a Makefile that 
> would allow me to build having generated files from VMMaker.    There is no 
> use of mkMake or mkfrags on windows it seems.
So far as I'm aware there is no need for any special purpose code in
VMMaker for windows; however since I don't have any windows machine to
test things on I rely on the good offices of people such as Craig to
occasionally try it out and let me know of problems.

The chief 'problem' with w32 and MSVC++ is that the makefile/project
needs to be hand-altered for each configuration you might want because
of the lack of autoconf/scripting like functionality. Same problem on
Mac & Acorn!
> 
> I am using all of your recommended tools, and I was able to compile based 
> on your Alpha5 code, with all internal.  I have been able to generate, with 
> VMMaker, and compile up to Squeak.exe linking step, using all internal 
> modules and my own hacked copy of Makefile.mingw32  to support the new 
> directory structure.
I assume you mean the "internal plugin source in vm/intplugins" ? Yes,
that would need some hopefully trivial alterations to whatever the
make/project file is. See above....

> At the link step, I am missing or double defining
> certain file primitive definitions and it can't resolve (ftello) and 
> friends.  This is a result of my hacking the Makefile and I'm not that 
> experienced at Makefiles.   I also had the off_t and size_t  not defined 
> problems in sq.h   I added those defines to sq.h.
Those are the bits that got added recently to support large files; if
you don't have that changeset you will have problems. 'off_t' etc should
be found in the sq.h etc currently in the SourceForge.net cvs tree.

tim
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