Subj : Successfully compiled Maximus 3.02
To   : All
From : Mvan Le
Date : Sun Jan 31 2010 12:18 am

I have successfully compiled all Maximus 3.02 overlayed DOS and Win32 source 
executables as per "MaximusSourceDoc.doc" on Windows XP using Watcom C/C++ 
Version 11c and the "h\nt" headers and "lib386\nt" libraries from Version 10.6. 


I am very happy.

I am now in the process of correcting the build scripts and updating the source 
documentation because it said:

  "copy the legacy Watcom compiler include files into 
  c:\dv\s3\comp\wc15\h\nt and copy the old compiler's 
  libraries into c:\dv\s3\comp\wc15\lib386\nt."

when "dv\s3\binnt\setwc11.bat" set WATCOM_LIBS to the wrong location (!) 
(c:\dv\comp\wc15 instead of c:\dv\s3\comp\wc15). Unfortunately it took me 4 
weeks of debugging grief before this single error was spotted. Man, I was 
severely pissed off. 

In the end, nothing had to be modified except this incorrectly set WATCOM_LIBS 
environment. There was no need to fix inconsistent declarations, types, defines 
etc. Everything described in "MaximusSourceDoc.doc" would have worked if that 
WATCOM_LIBS was set correctly. Heh.

Now I can start reading the SLIB stuff :) Woohoo !

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