• "Bruce Dodson" <bruce_dodson hotmail.com> Jan 12 2004
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Jan 13 2004
• Parinya Thipchart <thipchart yahoo.com> Jan 13 2004
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Jan 14 2004

Has there been discussion of open-sourcing the DM runtime library?  The
source code for this has traditionally been included on the Symantec C++
CD-ROM and presumably is on the DM CD-ROM as well, so it seems to me there
are no secrets in it.  On this I am just curious; I have no pressing need
for it although it would be nice to be able to add support for some
additional functions like popen, to increase POSIX and/or MSVC
compatibility.

On the other side of the coin, has there been any thought of leveraging the
free w32api headers used by the MinGW project and others, making whatever
small modifications are needed so these can be used with DMC++?  This would
bring the API headers up to almost-current, whereas the headers and import
libraries presently delivered with DM often need to be hacked with entries
from the Platform SDK to make it work.

"Bruce Dodson" <bruce_dodson hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:btuo63$23dh$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Has there been discussion of open-sourcing the DM runtime library?  The
 source code for this has traditionally been included on the Symantec C++
 CD-ROM and presumably is on the DM CD-ROM as well, so it seems to me there
 are no secrets in it.  On this I am just curious; I have no pressing need
 for it although it would be nice to be able to add support for some
 additional functions like popen, to increase POSIX and/or MSVC
 compatibility.


The complete library source comes with the CD.

 On the other side of the coin, has there been any thought of leveraging


 free w32api headers used by the MinGW project and others, making whatever
 small modifications are needed so these can be used with DMC++?  This


 bring the API headers up to almost-current, whereas the headers and import
 libraries presently delivered with DM often need to be hacked with entries
 from the Platform SDK to make it work.


I looked at those headers. Curiously, there is no mention at all in the
header source about the license, other than they are 'free'. Are they
covered by the GPL? Are they public domain?

Walter wrote:

 I looked at those headers. Curiously, there is no mention at all in the
 header source about the license, other than they are 'free'. Are they
 covered by the GPL? Are they public domain?
  


http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-w32api

The link above contains a link to the license term of w32api using by MinGW.

Regards,
Parinya

"Parinya Thipchart" <thipchart yahoo.com> wrote in message
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 Walter wrote:

 I looked at those headers. Curiously, there is no mention at all in the
 header source about the license, other than they are 'free'. Are they
 covered by the GPL? Are they public domain?


 http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-w32api

 The link above contains a link to the license term of w32api using by


 Regards,
 Parinya


Ah, thank-you.