Re: Compiling/Running 4.1 beta 3 on Windows NT

John Baker writes:

> Question:  What is required to get the W3C Reference Library  to cleanly
> compile and run on
> Windows NT 3.51 using Visual C++ 4.1?
> 
> Discussion:
> Has anyone compiled w3c-libwww-4_1b3a.zip under Win32 configuration
> prior to distribution? My guess is that they did
> not, since compiling the module HTWWWStr.c  yields an 'undeclared
> identifier' error (which presumably would have
> been
> easily detected and fixed prior to distribution):

Yes, that was a last second typo :-(

> Having corrected this (ap++ to p++) to produce the DLLs, I test the
> library using the 'libapp_4.c'
> URL retrieval app.  Consequently, I find that the library crashes with
> access violations
> in the module HTFWrite.c as follows:

This example has not been tested on a Windows platform and it has probably 
somethinkg to do with the mode you are using (console/windows etc.) Have you 
tried the line mode browser instead?

> I am looking forward to using this library, and hopefully in getting my
> company interesting in becoming a member!

Excellent - let me know what you think!


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Received on Thursday, 5 September 1996 13:13:55 UTC