jay@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Jay Phillips) (06/15/89)
Does anyone have any knowledge of availability of C++ for Xenix? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks Jay Phillips jay@hp-pcd
lcc@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (73701000) (06/17/89)
There is GNU g++ from the GNU foundation. It is public domain and you can get it from prep.ai.mit.edu over the internent. You probably won't get it to work unless you have a 387 installed because of the lack of robust floating point emulation in XENIX. Ken Chapin
terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) (06/18/89)
In article <7999@saturn.ucsc.edu> lcc@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Ken Chapin writes: >There is GNU g++ from the GNU foundation. It is public domain and you can >get it from prep.ai.mit.edu over the internent. You probably won't get it >to work unless you have a 387 installed because of the lack of robust >floating point emulation in XENIX. > >Ken Chapin This will be LOTS of work since GCC does not support MASM and XENIX does not come with any COFF libraries except the shared libraries which makes it difficult to use GAS. Once you have SCO UNIX 3.2 you will be able to use GCC and therefore g++. -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University Work: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry Play: tah386!terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!tah386!terry
adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) (06/20/89)
In article <7999@saturn.ucsc.edu> lcc@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (73701000) writes:
There is GNU g++ from the GNU foundation. It is public domain and you can
get it from prep.ai.mit.edu over the internent. You probably won't get it
to work unless you have a 387 installed because of the lack of robust
floating point emulation in XENIX.
GNU C++ is not in the public domain. The software is copyrighted by
the Free Software Foundation. The license is, however, free,
providing you abide by the terms. As for porting it to Xenix, I have
my doubts. C++ is based on the GNU C compiler, which, as far as I
know, has never been ported to Xenix. (Actually, I think someone did
port it to Xenix, but the resulting compiler produced SYSV binaries,
not Xenix ones.) What we have decided to do, and which may be the
best idea, is to wait for Unix 3.2 from SCO and then run GNU C and
C++.
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