compiling in VC6

[Steven Seagal]

Has anybody compiled the project in VC6 without changes?
I get errors in CMake (must point to the SDL), then loads of errors in VC6, Unix include files that don't exist in VC6, etc.

[npomarede]

Hello

as a portable emulator, Hatari is tested only to compile under gcc, because gcc is portable and available on all platforms, free of charge.
Under Windows, you would need to use the mingw port of gcc http://www.mingw.org/ and install additional mingw packages for zip and sdl.

A few users are compling Hatari under Windows this way without error (I use it also as a cross compiler to build Windows exe from Linux)

Nicolas

[Steven Seagal]

Alright maybe I'll do that.
I was under the impression that it should work, because CMake can produce the VC6 config files (dsw...).

[npomarede]

There're other things apart from config files : the C code in Hatari is unix/linux/posix based regarding system calls ; that's the job of mingw to "translate" those generic systems calls into Windows specific equivalent.

Nicolas

[Cyprian]

Steven,
for compiling Hatari under windows you need mingw + msys and cmake and sdl, zlib and libpng library.
Unfortunatelny currently compiling process is not an easy as it was before switching to cmake. E.g. cmakes issue with finding sdl library, Toolchain-mingw32.cmake needs to be modifed (i586-pc-mingw32-gcc change to mingw32-gcc, i586-pc-mingw32-windres to windres) and there is one more makefile which needs to be edited.

[simonsunnyboy]

Otoh it might be the perfect opportunity to come up with a VC6 build environment? I'm pretty sure with some special libs and/or mapping the problematic calls it shoudl be doable.

Think of an integration module, it provides the POSIX or unioxoid APi requested by the functions and internally it executes the native Windows commands.
I don't think there are probelamatic stuffs in there. The sockets can be disabled for a start (until a full APi is avialble).

[npomarede]

I'm not sure it's worth the effort, apart from sockets, you will also have different data types, so lots of work to fix it.

It's like Firefox for Windows, you can't build it with VC6, you need a gcc compatible environment.

Nicolas

[simonsunnyboy]

Doesn't Hatari use the SDL types already? If not it is certainly time to change that!

[Steven Seagal]

I don't claim it's worth the effort, and I don't want to start anything, but VC6 has a superior IDE, online help and debugger, at least for me. From what I've seen, it would be much work indeed. I downloaded the MinGW compiler and hopefully the right libraries, when I gather the courage I'll try a build of Hatari.

[Eero Tamminen]

I don't claim it's worth the effort, and I don't want to start anything, but VC6 has a superior IDE, online help and debugger, at least for me. From what I've seen, it would be much work indeed.

Kenneth Kaufman had contributed VC6 support to an earlier Hatari version (see the code in "Visual.Studio" directory), so it's possible that somebody (with Windows & VC6) could come up with a patch that again makes Hatari compilable with VC6. However, AFAIK VC6 doesn't properly support the "new" C99 standard and gives C++ warnings for valid C code, so it might not be worth the trouble.

[Steven Seagal]

I finally gathered the courage & compiled v1.6 in both Linux & Windows (as mentioned, more complicated) using gcc.
I notice long compile times for C, but maybe it's a bigger project than Steem (C++).
If I want to make that VC6-compatible, it seems I would have to do the same work as minGW, no thanks.