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2002-01-03 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
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* NEWS: Mention removal of the OS/2 port.
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* README.PC: Remove OS/2 specific parts.
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2002-01-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
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NEWS
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NEWS
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Yet to be released version 4.6.
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- GNOME edition has been removed.
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- OS/2 port has been removed.
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- Large file support enabled by default.
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- Dropped support for the old Curses library.
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- Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
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README.PC
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README.PC
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Midnight Commander for Win32 and OS/2
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-------------------------------------
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GNU Midnight Commander for Win32
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--------------------------------
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0. Introduction
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1. Compiling
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0. Introduction
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---------------
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Yes, Midnight Commander can be compiled for Win32 (Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and
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NT) and OS/2. It has many bugs, but is quite stable now. Maybe you can help as
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a beta tester or as a programmer. In either case you would like subscribe to
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mc-devel list (see README files in main doc on how to do this) and contact us.
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Please note, that Midnight Commander remains primarily a file manager for
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UNIX-like systems, so recent changes may occasionally break something.
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You should not expect that it will work on your system better than file
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managers written specifically for your OS.
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Yes, Midnight Commander can be compiled for Win32 (all versions of
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Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 95 for all platforms, except
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Windows CE). It may be tricky to compile, it may be buggy, but it should
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be usable. Maybe you can help as a beta tester or as a programmer.
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In either case you would like subscribe to the mc-devel list (see README
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and FAQ) and contact us.
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Please note that Midnight Commander remains primarily a file manager for
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UNIX-like systems. You should not expect that it will work on your
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system better than a file manager written specifically for your OS.
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1. Compiling
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------------
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1.1. Compiler
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-------------
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If you really want to enjoy free software under your non-free OS, you should
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try free compilers. Three of them are supported: EMX (OS/2), RSX and Mingw32
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(Win32). RSX is based on EMX, and can also cross-compile for OS/2 under
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Windows. Mingw32 is conceived as a free clone for Microsoft Visual C++.
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Please note, that all above compiler are based on gcc (GNU C compiler), but
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use different libraries.
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Cygwin is not (yet) powerful enough to compile Windows-specific portion of
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the Midnight Commander, but you may try to compile MC using UNIX configuration
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files. As you can easily imagine, resulting binary will need termcap or
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terminfo and use ANSI-sequences for output which is probably not what you want.
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You may also try non-free compilers. Microsoft Visual C++ (4.0 and above),
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Borland C++ (both for Win32 and OS/2) and IBM CSet are supported. "Supported"
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means merely that there are specific makefiles for those compilers, but it
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does not even assume that you will compile MC by them out-of-box.
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If you really want to enjoy free software under your non-free OS,
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you should try free compilers. Two of them are supported: RSXNT and
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MinGW. Please visit their respective sites for more information.
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RSXNT: http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~rainer/
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MinGW: http://www.mingw.org/
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MinGW is also included with Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/).
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Cygwin envirinment is so close to UNIX, that it's possible to compile
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GNU Midnight Commander in the same way as it's done in UNIX (see file
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INSTALL for details). However, you should realize that you would get a
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UNIX program that has no idea about drives, Windows-style permissions
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and some other Windows-specific features. This is not the Win32 port
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discussed in this document.
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Skeaking of non-free compilers, Microsoft Visual C++ (4.0 and above) and
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Borland C++ are supported. "Supported" means merely that there are
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specific makefiles for those compilers, but it does not even assume that
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you will compile GNU Midnight Commander out-of-box.
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1.2. General issues
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See pc/README, pc/BUGS, pc/TODO for the information concerning current state
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of the port.
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You may need to create some fake includes to compile. You may also need to
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change something in the MC sources.
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See pc/README, pc/BUGS, pc/TODO for the information concerning current
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state of the port. You may need to hack the code in order to compile it.
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1.3 Windowing Library
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---------------------
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Currently only support for SLang windowing library is given. There are
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curses clones ported to Win32 and OS/2, but I believe that since there is
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no analogs for autoconf for those systems, we should avoid unnecessary
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Currently only support for the S-Lang windowing library is provided.
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There are curses clones ported to Win32, but I believe that since we
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are not using autoconf for the Win32 port, we should avoid unnecessary
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difficulties.
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Currently the PC port SLang included in this distribution (see slang/
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subdirectory). This is a subset of SLang 0.99.38 distribution with some
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bugs fixed. There are also MC-specific changes in the code.
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SLang 0.99.38 has problems with OS/2 if you like console with more than
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80x25 characters. You may try to use a newer SLang. It is possible, but it
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is also quite tricky.
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Currently the Win32 port only can use S-Lang included in this
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distribution (see slang/ subdirectory). This is a subset of S-Lang
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0.99.38 distribution with some bugfixes and MC-specific code changes.
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1.4 Features and Limitations
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Internal editor is supported (including syntax highlighting).
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Internal viewer is supported (including hex editor).
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VFS (virtual file system) is not supported.
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X11 ports are not supported.
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Concurrent subshell is not supported.
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2. Changes made
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2.1. Changes to main code
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Changes in the main code are enclosed in #ifdef _OS_NT, __os2__ or OS2_NT
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blocks.
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Changes in the main code are enclosed in #ifdef _OS_NT blocks.
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In some cases we suppressed code. This is temporal (so that mc can compile). In
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the future we will provide fake or true interfaces for these features.
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- Links: creation and information on links are not supported. We
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In some cases we suppressed code. This is temporal (so that mc can compile).
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In the future we will provide fake or true interfaces for these features.
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- Links: creation and information on links are not supported. We
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should provide a fake interface for the local filesystem and
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a true one for networked.
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- GID/UID queries (get_user, owner, preserve UID/GID on copy, ...).
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- TERMinals: all the code directly done with terminals must be suppressed.
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- Signals: deleted. Should support the native ones.
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- Signals: deleted. Should support the native ones.
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- pipes: had some trouble in ext.c and with error_pipes but soon will be
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fixed.
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- Chown command: Not supported yet.
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2.2. Files rewritten
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There are several files with so many changes that they have been moved to pc/
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subdirectory. Some of them are common for Win32 and OS/2, some of them are
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system-specific. System-specific files bear a clear mark in their names
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(for example, dirent_nt.c)
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Our intention should be, however, to make most code system-independent. This
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would increase code reuse and maintainability :-)
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There are several files with so many changes that they have been moved
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to pc/ subdirectory. Our intention should be, however, to make most code
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system-independent. This would increase code reuse and maintainability.
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See pc/ subdirectory for further details.
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3. Authors and maintainers
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This port is based on the port for Windows NT by
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Juan Grigera <grigera@isis.unlp.edu.ar>
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and the port for OS/2 by
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Alexander Dong <ado@software-ag.de>
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Both ports were merged to one PC port by me,
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Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
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Please note, that I'm using Linux now. I have access to Windows 95 machines,
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but I have no access to OS/2 machines. If you are really keen to continue my
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work, please drop me a letter.
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Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
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The code is not actively maintained, but the patches are applied.
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Please send your changes to the mc-devel list.
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