OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux "pre-alpha" Release

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Jul 05, 1999
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Irv Mullins writes:
> EXU is looking for a routine "wcolor_set."  which is
> not defined. The reason being, as far as I can tell, is
> that wcolor_set  is only available with ncurses 5.0 which
> comes with RedHat. All the other versions of Linux
> that I have (SuSE 6.1, Slack 4.0) only refer to wcolor_set
> as a "prototype" for future use.

I checked the copyright restrictions on ncurses, and found that
unlike some other GNU libraries, this one is not subject
to the usual GNU Library Licence. That means I can statically
link it into exu without having to satisfy GNU's usual requirements
for statically linked code. It makes exu about 90K larger, but
it would probably allow exu to run correctly on many more
Linux distributions. I have also found a compressor for
Linux executables that I will try. Currently exu is not compressed.
I expect exu will end up smaller than
ex.exe (which is compressed).

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/