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127 lines
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Midnight Commander for Windows NT and Windows '95
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0. Hello
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1. Compiling
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2. Changes made
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0. Hello
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--------
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Hello, this is the Midnight Commander port to Win32. It has many bugs, but is
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quite stable now. Maybe you can help as an beta tester or as a programmer. In
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either case you would like subscribe to mc-devel list
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(see readme files in main doc on how to do this) and contact us.
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1. Compiling
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1.1. Compiler
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Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows NT (all versions, including 4.x) are supported.
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In nt/makefile you can find an external makefile, and in nt/makefile.vc1.nt, vc4.nt
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projects for the visual IDE. Two makefiles are add since the version 3.5.39. They
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are produced from MS VC 4.x and are named as ntaxp.mak (for Windows NT AXP)
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and ntint.mak (for Windows NT Intel). If you want to use them, you will have to
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change the path coded in these two files.
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Other compilers such as Watcom, or Borland tools should be quite
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straightforward, but has not been tested.
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Under Cygnus tools, apparently everything works just fine.
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1.2. General issues
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Preprocessor
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Define:
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LIBDIR
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_OS_NT - OS flag
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OS2_NT - Flag for OS/2 and NT
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HAVE_CONFIG_H - config.h flag
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Includes:
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So as to avoid chaos in include files, I decided to create some
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fake includes for UNIX counterparts. The empty files you need to create are:
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pwd.h grp.h
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sys/param.h sys/time.h
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1.3 Windowing Library
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Currently only support for S-lang windowing library is given. I know no curses
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public library ported to Win32 consoles, and I think it is useless to port
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it now. You may want to download the complete distribution it from
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ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis.
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2. Changes made
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2.1. Changes to main code
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They are enclosed in #ifdef _OS_NT or OS2_NT blocks.
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Wrote something similar to statfs in UTIL.C
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Wrote truncate.
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Changed (almost) all references to "/" path slash with PATH_CHAR and strPATH_CHAR.
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Changed name of CONTROL_FILE.
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Changed name of shell and call to shell.
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In some cases we supressed 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 in NT. 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 supressed.
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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 fixed.
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- Chown command: Not supported yet.
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2.2. Files rewritten
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There are 3 files with so many changes that they have been moved to independent
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archives (or OS dependent).
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- Chmod.nt.c: this command will query and change attributes (hidden, system,
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archive,...). Maybe we should write a real chmod (and also a
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chown). It is not finished, but works almost fine. Look that
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the stat st_mode member is filled with attributes, not modes.
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- Cons.handler.nt.c: Supports same API as linux cons.handler.c. It allocates
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a new console buffer and switches between the two when doing a
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shell. The new allocated one is the used by Midnight commander.
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(look that to make this we should also redirect standard handles)
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- Key.nt.c: a static table maps Virtual Key codes to Curses-like Key codes.
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Also mouse events are supported.
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still preliminar.
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- utilnt.c: Contains utilunix.c functions, with Win32 implementation
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2.3. New files
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- drive.nt.c: A Change Drive command has been implemented. Two lines
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in main.c were included (in the left/right panel menus).
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The funcs drive_cmd_a/b are implemented in this new file.
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It will build a dialog with available drives as buttons.
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bug: too many drives are not supported (think just 7). have
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to rewrite to support more than one line.
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- util.debug.c: developers-only utilities to trace Win32 API call error codes
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- util.WinNT.c: Windows NT specific functions:
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getuid(): Will check your priviledges and return 0 (root)
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if you have Administrator priviledges.
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- util.Win32.c: Windows NT & 95 utilities: (specific to Win32, no UNIX counterpart)
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getEXEtype(): check if executable is CUI or GUI.
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2.4. Changes made from me (Alexander Dong, ado@software-ag.de)
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I have hacked some codes for Windows NT AXP and NT Intel.
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Drive.nt.c was rewritten for a beautiful Drive_Change dialog window.
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All main source changed from me are marked with the comment /* .ado */.
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I have also included two own Makefiles:
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ntaxp.mak (for Windows NT Alpha) and
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ntint.mak (for Windows 95/NT Intel).
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You will have to change the path in these files before use them. They
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are both for Microsoft Visual C++ 4.x.
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