On Feb 16, 6:12 pm, neit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Martin Neitzel)
wrote:
> David Brown:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone has been successful in getting A+ 4.20
> > working on a 64-bit Linux or BSD on x86-64 hardware.
>
> I had "compiling A+" sitting on my my back burner for enough years
> and I finally did it this week. Not on 64bit though, my old 486
> running FreeBSD-4.7 had to make do. With just 48MB RAM, it took
> about three continuing days to compile/swap this C++ project.
>
> I had to make a simple amendment in two places:
>
> src/IPC/p{String,Simple}_Connection.C
> lacked an #include <sys/types.h> right before the
> #include <netinet/in.h>
>
> Other than that, everything else compiled just fine on this system.
>
> A quick simultaneous attempt at compiling A+ 4.20 on
Debian-Etch/x86-32bit
> yesterday during work started fine and compiling managed to proceed
> through many of the subdirs but eventually aborted with a type
> compatibility problem. I wasn't able to give it a closer look yet,
> and anyway: I'm no C++ programmer.
>
> > I can send out bug re****ts, but if, like Flash, the community is aware
> > this just doesn't work for these operating systems, I don't want to
waste
> > anyone's time.
>
> The platform list contains quite a lot 64bit of sup****ted platforms, so
your
> re****ts would be certainly within the scope of the project.
>
> As far as I understandwww.aplusdev.org, there's currently no mailing
list
> anymore. I guess using this newsgroup is fine. I would certainly be
> interested to hear of any A+ related re****ts.
>
> Martin Neitzel
I've tried to contact every one of the 4 people listed on
sourceforge.net in
the Aplusdev project. Not all of them respond. But the responses I
have
received point to this group as the forum to use for A+.
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