Re: Digital Mars patches

Gisle Vanem <[email protected]> writes:

> The attached patches will make Wget compile on DMC.

Thanks for the patch.  How popular is this compiler?  Adding support
for another Windows compiler complicates the code and the Makefiles,
so there should be some benefit to it.  For example, we've recently
removed support for the "Watcom" compiler because no one was using it
and therefore support for it bitrotted.

To make it easier to support different Windows compilers, I've been
considering a reorganization of the windows directory along these
lines:

config.h:
  - Generic features of the Win32 C environment, mostly
    non-compiler-specific.  This would follow the format of
    config.h.in, i.e. would consist of things like #define HAVE_FOO 1
    and #undef HAVE_BAR.  This file would contain much of the
    repetition of the current windows/config.h*

config-msvc.hr:
config-borland.h:
config-mingw.h:
config-dmc.h:
  - Enumerates features of specific compilers, again following the
    HAVE_* convention where possible.

mswindows.h:
  - Declarations of Wget-specific Windows functions, such as the
    winsock wrappers, declaration of wgint, etc.  That is not very
    different from what is there now, except it would try to avoid
    #ifdef SPECIFIC_COMPILER where possible.

One thing that would simplify matters would be to simply decide on
*one* version of `make' for all Windows builds.  Ideally we would have
a single windows `src/Makefile' and only change CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
from configure.bat, similar to what configure/config.status do in Unix
builds.

> - Has '_Bool'. C99 type?

_Bool is C99.  Does it have stdbool.h and the related bool #define?