As far as I know, there is nothing platform-specific about bcd.gen, but I have no means of porting it to Windows.

So, I need somebody who's fairly good at typing 'make', and perhaps even editing your path, to see if you can get bcd.gen to compile and function on Windows.

Its two prerequisites are both available in binary form:

gccxml: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ctypes/gccxml-20050318-setup.exe?download (I hope this is recent enough ...)

libxml2: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libxml2.htm

Other than that, you should just need 'make'.  Any help porting/testing would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond either via email or to the newsgroup.

 - Gregor Richards

I made an attempt to build bcd.gen on Windows. Here are my notes.

1. The libxml2-2.4.12 at gnuwin32.sourceforge.net appears to be missing xmlReadFile. Instead, used libxml2-2.6.26.win32.zip from http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/.

2. Converted libxml2.dll to libxml2.lib using implib.exe from DigitalMars. Conversion of lib\libxml2.lib using coeff2omf.exe didn't work because undefined symbols remained.

3. Crashes occur when calling free() on char* returned from libxml2. Tried converting free() calls to xmlFree(), but crashes still occured. Subsituting a noop stup for xmlFree() allows bcdgen to run without error, but I can't confirm the result is correct. This problem with calling free() may be a consequence of linking to the libxml2.dll via implib.exe


  Bradley



Gregor Richards wrote:
> As far as I know, there is nothing platform-specific about bcd.gen, but I have no means of porting it to Windows.
> 
> So, I need somebody who's fairly good at typing 'make', and perhaps even editing your path, to see if you can get bcd.gen to compile and function on Windows.
> 
> Its two prerequisites are both available in binary form:
> 
> gccxml: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ctypes/gccxml-20050318-setup.exe?download (I hope this is recent enough ...)
> 
> libxml2: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libxml2.htm
> 
> Other than that, you should just need 'make'.  Any help porting/testing would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond either via email or to the newsgroup.
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I doubt that the results are wrong, but I'll bet the memory usage is on the bad end of the scale ... do you have a way to test how much memory it uses in a run?

 - Gregor Richards

Bradley Smith wrote:
> I made an attempt to build bcd.gen on Windows. Here are my notes.
> 
> 1. The libxml2-2.4.12 at gnuwin32.sourceforge.net appears to be missing xmlReadFile. Instead, used libxml2-2.6.26.win32.zip from http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/.
> 
> 2. Converted libxml2.dll to libxml2.lib using implib.exe from DigitalMars. Conversion of lib\libxml2.lib using coeff2omf.exe didn't work because undefined symbols remained.
> 
> 3. Crashes occur when calling free() on char* returned from libxml2. Tried converting free() calls to xmlFree(), but crashes still occured. Subsituting a noop stup for xmlFree() allows bcdgen to run without error, but I can't confirm the result is correct. This problem with calling free() may be a consequence of linking to the libxml2.dll via implib.exe
> 
> 
>   Bradley
> 
> 
> 
> Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> As far as I know, there is nothing platform-specific about bcd.gen, but I have no means of porting it to Windows.
>>
>> So, I need somebody who's fairly good at typing 'make', and perhaps even editing your path, to see if you can get bcd.gen to compile and function on Windows.
>>
>> Its two prerequisites are both available in binary form:
>>
>> gccxml: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ctypes/gccxml-20050318-setup.exe?download (I hope this is recent enough ...)
>>
>> libxml2: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libxml2.htm
>>
>> Other than that, you should just need 'make'.  Any help porting/testing would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond either via email or to the newsgroup.
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards

I don't have an accurate way of measuring the memory used, but it appears to use about 70-80 M.

  Bradley


Gregor Richards wrote:
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
> 
> I doubt that the results are wrong, but I'll bet the memory usage is on the bad end of the scale ... do you have a way to test how much memory it uses in a run?
> 
>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> Bradley Smith wrote:
>> I made an attempt to build bcd.gen on Windows. Here are my notes.
>>
>> 1. The libxml2-2.4.12 at gnuwin32.sourceforge.net appears to be missing xmlReadFile. Instead, used libxml2-2.6.26.win32.zip from http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/.
>>
>> 2. Converted libxml2.dll to libxml2.lib using implib.exe from DigitalMars. Conversion of lib\libxml2.lib using coeff2omf.exe didn't work because undefined symbols remained.
>>
>> 3. Crashes occur when calling free() on char* returned from libxml2. Tried converting free() calls to xmlFree(), but crashes still occured. Subsituting a noop stup for xmlFree() allows bcdgen to run without error, but I can't confirm the result is correct. This problem with calling free() may be a consequence of linking to the libxml2.dll via implib.exe
>>
>>
>>   Bradley
>>
>>
>>
>> Gregor Richards wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I know, there is nothing platform-specific about bcd.gen, but I have no means of porting it to Windows.
>>>
>>> So, I need somebody who's fairly good at typing 'make', and perhaps even editing your path, to see if you can get bcd.gen to compile and function on Windows.
>>>
>>> Its two prerequisites are both available in binary form:
>>>
>>> gccxml: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ctypes/gccxml-20050318-setup.exe?download (I hope this is recent enough ...)
>>>
>>> libxml2: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libxml2.htm
>>>
>>> Other than that, you should just need 'make'.  Any help porting/testing would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond either via email or to the newsgroup.
>>>
>>>  - Gregor Richards