Hi Chris --

You should be able to use Cygwin for the build. I actually think that the
issue was with tcs and cygwin ... but I may be mistaken (it was a while
ago).

Once I get the source tree downloaded, I will attempt a build and post
instructions.

If anyone is interested in building with Borland C, it's a bit of work but
not impossible. There will be makefile changes and a few source code
changes (mostly in svc.c)

-Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Jewell <cjewell@...>
To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Building IB6


> > From: "Mike Nordell" <tamlin@...>
> > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:09:06 +0100
> >
> > > You will also need the MKS tool kit.
> >
> > AFAIK the only *needed* things from this is ksh and sed. I'm using a
Win32
> > compiled GNU sed without any problems. As for ksh, would a Win32 bash
cut
> > it? The one from cygwin?
>
> Some time in 1998 or -9, one of our Windows guys (who changed employers
> after the December events but who lurks here and may choose to comment)
> made a run at converting the NT build to work with Cygwin, but found that
> at that time the Cygwin stuff wasn't up to the job. That's a long
> time ago on an OSS timescale, cygwin may be up to the job now.
>
> I used to have a ksh test script that was passed under real ksh93,
> pdksh, and zsh symlinked as ksh (my personal favorite :-) ), but
> failed under bash. That script doesn't seem to be on my Sparc at the
> office: I'll check my main FreeBSD box at home this evening. Someone
> with Cygwin installed can try the script: if it passes now, it may be
> time for another try at replacing MKS with Cygwin. Alternatively,
> someone could rewrite the shell scripts which depend on things that
> bash gets wrong (at least if you consider AT&T ksh to be correct).
>
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