Re: Unix --> NT (source code stuff)

From: Brian Gilkison (gilkison@one.net)
Date: Wed, Feb 28 2001

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    From: Brian Gilkison <gilkison@one.net>
    Message-Id: <200102282135.QAA18857@shell.one.net>
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    Date: 	Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:35:46 -0500
    Subject: Re: Unix --> NT (source code stuff)
    
    On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Nick Kew wrote:
    >Isn't there something at <URL:http://www.arealvalidator.com/> ?
    >
    >I've recently recompiled Code Valet for Windoze.  This is basically
    >a web-enabled version of SP, to do validation and (many) other things
    >without the need for an intervening CGI wrapper.  It uses Liam's
    >mods to SP as its starting point.  I can report that it compiles cleanly
    >under cygwin ( <URL:http://cygwin.sourceforge.net/> ), and would infer
    >that lq-sp will almost certainly do likewise .
    
    Well, no offense to Liam (I probably use the WDG validator as much as the
    W3C when I'm not at home), but 'A Real Validator' has two flaws for my
    purposes:
    
    1) It costs $$
    2) My ISP allows, among other things, use of SSI and PHP; dropping files
       onto A Real Validator can't tell me if they're valid, if they've not
       yet been processed by the server.
    
    Since I already have an Apache server with Perl 5.6, and PHP 4.01, at home
    for staging my ISP files, I'm happy with any Perl or PHP solutions (anyone
    like to take a crack at a PHP validator? ;) )
    
    My request for a binary was not for the entire validator, but rather for a
    WIN32 binary of lq-nsgmls to replace James Clark's nsgmls.exe for Windows,
    since that appears to be the route the W3C Validator will be taking.  I've
    not coded one line of C or C++ in my life, and I don't have a compiler
    readily available either -- hence the request.
    
    Since Cygwin was mentioned, can you recommend a minimum configuration
    (tools, compiler, etc.) I'd need to get a binary out of Liam's code?