RE: Bugs and Borland

[Hans-Jochen Trost]

Steven,

> I have not encountered anyone who has built Electric
> with Borland.  I would provide Borland project files
> if I had the compiler, but I cannot justify purchasing
> it (I asked Borland for an evaluation version of their
> compiler but they didn't respond).

thanks for your prompt reply (I found it on the web site in the archives,
for some reason I haven't received it by e-mail).  I don't have much time to
devote to this right now, so I abandoned pursuing the Borland compilation
issue for now.  Instead, I gave compiling under Linux a quick shot.  I have
Debian Linux 2.2 R5 with XFree86 3.3.6.  Compilation fails in graphunixx11.c
with the inability of finding a bunch of headers.  While manual fixing of
the setting for the include directory is in order as is pointed out on the
web site, the headers "Xm/whatever.h" just are not around anywhere - there
is no (sub)directory Xm to begin with.  QUESTION: What Linux kernel and X
version do you assume to be present?  I could go to XFree86 4.1.0 but not
newer because I don't have glibc 2.2 available.  Again, if the answer is not
easy, I'll have to abandon this effort for now.

By the way, Borland has, or had, a free compiler for download - just the
compiler version 5.5 which is the one running in C++Builder 5 (they're at
version 6 now), without any IDE.  I don't know if their MAKE tool comes with
it; if it does, I could provide you with a make file extracted from my setup
in the full IDE, just for starters ...

> Thanks for your fixes.  I will update Electric.  A new
> release is due out in a few weeks, so this is just in
> time for you.

I'll take a look.  Feel free to put my address onto your mailing list.

Best regards,

Hans-Jochen Trost