OpenEuphoria

Re: Compiler status

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Jul 11, 2000
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Ralf N. writes:

> But it is half the size of the dos-interpreter.

The DOS32 executable (ex.exe) is quite a bit
larger than the Linux or Windows executables (exu, exw).
I've indicated that this is due to the WATCOM graphics
library. That's not the whole story. A large part of the
extra size is due to the CauseWay DOS extender,
and some is simply due to less effective .exe compression.
It's hard to add up the numbers from the link
map, but the graphics library is not having as large
an effect as you might be imagining.

> I'm in for kicking out the watcom libs, and for adding
> some cross-platform graphical interface library.

I wish I had a cross-platform, separately-includable
graphics library, with source code, that was fast,
and compatible across (at least) Linux, Windows and DOS,
and supported all the different graphics cards out there.

Without a suitable replacement, I can't simply
scrap the WATCOM library in the name of cross-platform
consistency. It would break far too many programs.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com