You will also need the MKS tool kit. Further we need to have Borland
"make".

You also need Delphi if you want to build some gui stuff like IBConsole
etc., but you can get by without building this stuff.


Shaunak.

Paul Gallagher wrote:

>
> What tools/programs will I need to compile and build IB6. Obviously, I will
> need MS VC, but what else?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ann Harrison <harrison@...>
> To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>; <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Building IB6
>
> > At 08:26 PM 7/27/00 +0100, Mike Nordell wrote:
> > >I was pointed to this mailing-list from interbase.public.general. If it's
> > >the wrong place for these kind of questions, please let me know.
> >
> > This is the right place.
> >
> > >Is there really no other way to make the build work other than somehow
> > >already have the binaries you're trying to build (i.e. it's a a complete
> > >deadlock situation)?
> >
> > Right now, that's the case. The preprocessor (gpre) generates C
> > code that is largely system independent, so it's possible to cross-compile
> > when porting to a new platform, though it make take some hand tweaking -
> > or a lot, in the case of Cray.
> >
> > >The signal-to-noise ratio when building is really, *really*, bad. With
> about
> > >1-5 thousand (!) warnings per lib/dll/exe it's close to impossible to
> find
> > >the *real* problems. Not that I'd say that this amount of warnings isn't
> a
> > >real problem. :-)
> >
> > You're absolutely right.
> >
> >
> > >And that brings me to the burning issue, patches. Where is one supposed
> to
> > >send these, and what format is preferred?
> >
> > Hmmm. Interesting problem. Apparently Borland didn't put up some of
> > the pieces that you'd expect to see in an open source project - bug
> > database, CVS ...
> >
> > Ann
> >
> >
> >
> >
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