Subject: Re: Wine941017 works for me now (gcc-2.6.0 is the trick!)
To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/02/1994 09:52:02
> I'm glad to say that I actually got WINE to run winmine.exe (minesweeper) on
my
> NetBSD-1.0/i386 system tonight!
>
> I picked up the gcc-2.6.0 distribution from prep.ai.mit.edu, had to
> tweak its, stddef.h a bit, and built/installed it. I then recompiled
> all of wine-941017 (without any patches!) with "make CC=gcc-2.6.0"
> (except for a manual "cd if1632/; gmake call.o" to get call.s to
> assemble into call.o) and it worked.
>
> sol.exe doesn't work too well--the cards are not drawn in quite the
> right placea and the bitmaps aren't all correct. [My X server is
> XFree86-3.1 for Mach32]. I don't know for sure what's up, but this is a
> far sight better than any previous efforts I've made!
>
> However, I did get a trap into ddb (can't tell what, because my X server
> didn't get out of the way) when exiting one wine app--I think it was the
> calc.exe.
>
> ==John
There was some suspicion that GCC's alignment rules changed. Can anyone
verify this ? What version of gcc is linux using these days ? Maybe
this can be fixed with a #pragma.
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