Hi,

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Has anyone out there gotten TVision to work using OpenWatcom C?
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/tvision/
>
>
> I haven't used TVision before, but I thought it would be good to use these
> libraries in the updated installer. I'm having a lot of problems getting it
> to compile. Before I got too far into the weeds, I figured I'd check if
> someone else already has this working.
>
>
> I'm using tv210s.zip

Just FYI, I've never used TVision either nor studied its use. But I do
know a bare minimum about its software ports (maybe).

Sorry, but I heavily doubt that it would work with OpenWatcom. Most
people don't use anything but GCC, usually only on Linux or FreeBSD.
OW 1.8 did heavily improve C++ support, but I have no idea if that is
anywhere near good enough for something like this. And you'd still
have to work around the obligatory Autotools. Yeah, I'm sure you know
all that. So don't get your hopes up too high for that.

EDIT: A very naive Google search shows this old news:  "(2005-09-19)
Open Watcom support added: Now you can compile Turbo Vision using the
Open Watcom. It compiles to a DLL. Lothar helped to make it possible."
(I also found a a different post on a different website by him saying
"DOS is supported too, but I haven't tested that.")

IIRC, there were two TVision ports: one BSD-licensed, one
GPL-licensed. I think the latter is what you're referring to here.

http://www.sigala.it/sergio/tvision/
http://tvision.sourceforge.net/

IIRC, this was used (and still) by SETedit (and thus long-dead RHIDE).
Okay, so his SETedit SourceForge page doesn't show any activity since
2012, but that's still fairly recent. (Though he seemingly abandoned
the DJGPP port a long time ago [2004?], sigh.)

http://setedit.sourceforge.net/

Only the C++ version of TVision was open-sourced. The Pascal one
remained proprietary, so FPC and pals had to port / rewrite most of it
themselves (FreeVision).

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Free_Vision

BTW, I think Jim Michaels (who frequents on freedos-* lists) has done
some fiddling with TVision recently, so you may want to email him
directly.

P.S. You might do better with TxWin (LGPL, C), which does explicitly
support DOS via OW:   http://trac.netlabs.org/txwin/

Argh, his download link is broken. You might have to email him
directly (although I also seem to have a local .ZIP copy here if
desperate).

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