[vorbis] Vorbis under DJGPP (was: DOS commandline decoder for Ogg beta4)

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> 
> > So, is there any demand for compiling vorbis under MSDOS?  Would be nice
> > at least for the plethora of allegro games :-)  I can easily contribute
> > makefiles / build scripts (.bat) / binaries (DOS SDK :), and maintain them
> > with futher releases.  What is the best way to build in an environmet
> > where automake doesn't work?  Should I write a makefile from scratch and
> > keep it synced with futher source changes or try to extract info from the
> > makefile.in / makefile.am ?  DJGPP has all binutils, GNU make, `sed' is
> > reasonable to expect, anything else best if avoided, only static libraries
> > needed.
> 
> Also bash etc. are available for DJGPP, so automake actually might
> work (at least I've heard people successfully building other
> automake's packages under DJGPP). But it might be easier for the
> typical Dos user not to require it and do as you did.
> 
The thought crossed my mind, but expecting the average DJGPP user to have
all that installed is too much.  Besides, it's not 100% compatible.
Ideally, it should compile without long file names (i.e. vanilla DOS) -
this should not be hard, unless the shortened filenames aren't unique.
I'll check that.

> I'm not sure; when I need something for DJGPP, I just cross-compile
> it from Linux -- easy enough if the program uses autoconf properly.

Cross compilation can work for someone proving a prebuilt library but
certainly many people without linux would want to be able to compilable
themselves.

> Though it doesn't seem to work with ogg (beta4), at least not out of
> the box, since configure tries to run the test programs checking for
> int16_t etc., so even if I define these types in <sys/types.h>,
> configure fails; I don't know why it does that, but it's probably
> fixable ...
> 
Actually DJGPP has quite a fixed configuration.  There is no reason to
autodetect if it's not painless.  I'll just create some fixed makefiles.
I'll try to post them on Sunday.  Now going offline and home...


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
                 (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)

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