madden@prang.TEST.Vitalink.COM (Brendan Maddog Madden) (02/25/91)
I am interested in using my NeXT (I'm still waiting for it) to do some C++ development using the NIH class libraries. I sent away for the source to the libraries from the "Data Abstraction and Object Oriented Programming" book by Gorlen, Orlow, and Plexico. I am still waiting for this source as well. They arranged with the publisher to have source code distributed by mail for 16 dollars or so. Does anybody know if I am going to be in any real trouble porting these libraries to use the GNU C++ 1.36 that NeXT ships with NeXTSTEP 2.0? Any tips/warnings/hints would be greatly appreciated and I will do the same when I can get going on the NIH port. As an aside, it looks as though Borland's Turbo C++ uses the NIH libraries as well in their Turbo C++ Compiler (see fall 1990 issue of the C++ Journal). They ship the source to these libraries, at least it looks like the NIH class libraries from the article. This would be nice for UNIX/DOS portability (get your flames in now). They don't seem to have included the GNU regular expression code though. Borland also seemed to have implemented a DoubleList class as well which I need. I'm suprised that NeXT didn't ship NeXTSTEP with GNU 1.37 or higher since I have been reading about the use of this for some time now on comp.sys.sun. I would appreciate if they made this upgrade when they ship NeXTSTEP 2.1 or whatever. I hope NeXT is listening. Brendan Madden madden@eng.vitalink.com