[Expat-discuss] Anyone using BeOS?

[Greg Stein]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:01:15PM -0500, Sam TH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:12:24PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> > 
> >   Does anyone here have a BeOS machine?  I'd like to learn a little
> > more about the appearant __declspec support on that platform, since
> > past patches indicate that it differs from the MSVC support.
> >   If anyone has a pointer to relevant documentation, I'd really
> > appreciate it.
> 
> Sorry about the late response.  
> 
> I'm the author of those patches.  I no longer have acess to the BeOS
> machines they were tested on.  As I remember it, the fundamental
> problem was that gcc, which we (AbiWord) use on x86 BeOS doesn't
> support __declspec.  The Metroworks compiler does, I think.  


Shouldn't be a problem. I had seen some -checkins related to that stuff. I
plan to just snarf what Apache is doing in that area. Apache's got lots of
portability stuff :-)

We should be able to clear it right up.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/