Getting winebuild to work on HP-UX

[Warren_Baird/CSI at cimmetry.com]

"Eric Frias" <efrias at syncad.com> wrote on 09/27/2004 09:52:12 AM:

> I don't know if this made it through on Thursday; if not, here's a 
repeat:

I saw it on the archive - sorry I didn't get a chance to respond on 
Friday.   Thanks for the repeat, though - it saves me cutting and pasting 
from the browser. :-)

> I'm afraid I won't be a lot of help right now, but I might be able to 
offer
> some moral support.

Well - at this point even moral support would be a good thing...

>  I've spent several weeks last year trying to get
> winelib working on HPUX, but I don't really have anything to show for 
it.
> Before I could get anything working, I had to abandon HPUX and work on
> fixing up Linux and Solaris stuff because it was in higher demand.  I'll
> eventually need to get HPUX working also, but I won't be able to devote 
too
> much time to it for at least a month.

My timeline is probably tighter than that - I'm hoping to have winelib 
working within the next month...   So you might be lucky.  :-)
 
> I was in the same situation as you are... very rusty at x86 assembly, 
able
> to comprehend a little sparc assembly, but I didn't know a thing about
> pa-risc.  I was simply typing make, letting it run until it had some 
error
> because HPUX wasn't supported, coming up with some fix for it, and
> repeating.  Some days I felt like I almost grasped what was going on and 
how
> to fix it, and some days it felt like it was miles away.  I never got 
all of
> wine compiling, so I have no idea if any of the fixes I made were 
correct or
> not.  I'd be happy to share them with you, but seeing them might do you 
more
> harm than good.

Yeah, if you wouldn't mind, send me the patches ---  It may give me some 
useful ideas, at least. 

> Anyway, good luck, and if you weren't looking for an excuse to learn 
pa-risc
> assembly, well, you have my sympathies.  I'm told it builds character 
:-)

:-)  then I guess my character is in for a bit of a work-out.  <sigh>

Thanks,

Warren

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