2019-02-28 05:35:30 +00:00
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# What is this?
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This is an experimental rewrite of the host application in pure C using the MinGW toolchain.
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# Why make this?
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Several reasons:
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1. The client is written in C and I would like to unify the project's language
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2. The host is currently hard to build using MinGW and is very Windows specific
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3. The host is a jumbled mess of code from all the experimentation going on
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4. I would eventually like to be able to port this to run on Linux guests
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# Why C and not C++ (or some other language)
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Beacuse I like C and for this project believe that C++ is overkill
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# When will it be ready?
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No idea
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# Will it replace the C++ host?
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Yes, but only when it is feature complete.
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# Why doesn't this use CMake?
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2019-04-09 06:28:11 +00:00
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It does now...
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~~Because win-builds doesn't distribute it, so to make it easy for everyone to compile we do not require it.~~
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2019-02-28 05:35:30 +00:00
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# How do I build it?
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Don't ask if you can't figure it out, this code is the very definition of experiemental and incomplete and should not be in use yet.
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2019-04-09 06:28:11 +00:00
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Hint:
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```
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mkdir build
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cd build
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cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" ..
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make
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```
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2019-02-28 05:35:30 +00:00
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_-Geoff_
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