On Mon 01 Dez, Toby Haynes wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Paul Whiting wrote:
> 
> > The thing I want to compile is at
> > http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/software/polyworld.html if anyone feels
> > like having a look at it. 'Make' on its own said that it didn't know
> > how to make '/usr/local/include/cc/lib.h.'.
> 
> I think you are going to have trouble. Reading the README tells you to
> type 'make depend' and then 'make', but without much further ado, it
> appears that this is not truely portable C++ - polyworld is intended to
> Silicon Graphics machines running IRIX 3.2 or later. I suspect that you
> are either going to have to produce a SGI library running under RiscBSD
> or get an SGI alas.

That's an understatement :-)
Even if you might get it to compile, link and run, I suspect that it will
not 'run', not even 'walk' but 'creep'.
And when they say that 'the smallest possible world' will take 16MB....
I suspect it relies heavily on FP and wide memory and io-subsystems.
Both not really a RISC-BSD-on-Acorn-RPC strenght. Sadly.

cheers,
Rainer
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