Subj : Maximus 3.01 source
To   : Scott Dudley
From : Mvan Le
Date : Tue Feb 09 2010 08:12 pm

SD> Sorry about that--it sounds like the build instructions
SD> led you astray. I still do have admin rights at the
SD> sourceforge project if you need to find a way to get in
SD> to correct them, as Andrew mentioned! It looks like
SD> Andrew could help you in that regard too.

Sure. I might as well get an account now before something "bad" happens :)

SD> For what it is worth, the project should be buildable
SD> using only one compiler, at least in theory. Someone

The Maximus 3.02 sources do build with Watcom 11.0c (using 10.6 headers &
libs), but with the following problems:

- Only non-overlayed executables, too big to fit in any version of Windows'
command prompt.

- There seems to be translation problems with keyboard input with "maxn.exe"
and "maxnd.exe".

Basically from my observations, none of the executables work from a pure 11.0c
build. None of the executables produced are useable :)

SD> previously mentioned that some of the options were
SD> hardcoded to use WC 11.0: this is actually something
SD> that you can change relatively easily. In case it's not
SD> obvious, instad of using "setwc11" to set up your
SD> compiler environment for WC 11.0, you can also
SD> configure it to use WC 10.0 or 10.5 (setwc or setwc15,
SD> respectively--I think?).

Yeah. I've created "setwc10.bat" for "pure" Watcom 10.6 builds, and some
"make.bat" scripts to do the builds. I've got everything working now, and have
updated the documentation so that when followed, Maximus 3.02 will build
out-of-the-box :)

SD> I should add that the above is the theory only: those
SD> compilers were used to build previous versions of
SD> Maximus, but my memory is fuzzy regarding whether or
SD> not I ever tried them with 3.02. I do notice that the
SD> "fix" for the previously-mentioned /wcd compilation
SD> error is incorporated there.

SD> For the record, I also don't recall using anything
SD> except production versions of the WATCOM compilers (eg.
SD> not OpenWatcom) for producing any of the distribution
SD> versions of Maximus.

Well it's good to know that it wasn't me :)

SD> I am also pretty sure that the build scripts were only
SD> tested/tried using a Win32 host platform (in other
SD> words, don't try to build from DOS).

SD> I hope this may be of some help!

Thank's Scott !

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