Has there been discussion of open-sourcing the DM runtime library?  The source code for this has traditionally been included on the Symantec C++ CD-ROM and presumably is on the DM CD-ROM as well, so it seems to me there are no secrets in it.  On this I am just curious; I have no pressing need for it although it would be nice to be able to add support for some additional functions like popen, to increase POSIX and/or MSVC compatibility.

On the other side of the coin, has there been any thought of leveraging the free w32api headers used by the MinGW project and others, making whatever small modifications are needed so these can be used with DMC++?  This would bring the API headers up to almost-current, whereas the headers and import libraries presently delivered with DM often need to be hacked with entries from the Platform SDK to make it work.

"Bruce Dodson" <bruce_dodson@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:btuo63$23dh$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Has there been discussion of open-sourcing the DM runtime library?  The source code for this has traditionally been included on the Symantec C++ CD-ROM and presumably is on the DM CD-ROM as well, so it seems to me there are no secrets in it.  On this I am just curious; I have no pressing need for it although it would be nice to be able to add support for some additional functions like popen, to increase POSIX and/or MSVC compatibility.

The complete library source comes with the CD.

> On the other side of the coin, has there been any thought of leveraging
the
> free w32api headers used by the MinGW project and others, making whatever small modifications are needed so these can be used with DMC++?  This
would
> bring the API headers up to almost-current, whereas the headers and import libraries presently delivered with DM often need to be hacked with entries from the Platform SDK to make it work.

I looked at those headers. Curiously, there is no mention at all in the header source about the license, other than they are 'free'. Are they covered by the GPL? Are they public domain?

Walter wrote:

> I looked at those headers. Curiously, there is no mention at all in the
> header source about the license, other than they are 'free'. Are they
> covered by the GPL? Are they public domain?
>  

http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-w32api

The link above contains a link to the license term of w32api using by MinGW.

Regards,
Parinya

"Parinya Thipchart" <thipchart@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bu24nq$1mbv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Walter wrote:
>
> > I looked at those headers. Curiously, there is no mention at all in the header source about the license, other than they are 'free'. Are they covered by the GPL? Are they public domain?
> >
>
> http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-w32api
>
> The link above contains a link to the license term of w32api using by
MinGW.
>
> Regards,
> Parinya

Ah, thank-you.