[Adonthell-general] CD distros

[Andrew Michael Phillips]

I had been thinking about the CD distribution thing on my own, mostly 
because I think it would be cool to have the music all in one place, along 
with Waste's Edge and possibly the v0.1 and v0.2 releases. Keeping an 
updated library on the discs might be harder.

How difficult is it to port to WinDOS code which has been written for 
Linux? It seems like compiling the same code in a Win32 environment 
wouldn't work. It sounds too simple. There's all that nonsense with dlls 
for one thing, etc etc ad nauseam. I'm not sure it would be a good use of 
time to be building Win32 binaries for (really) old versions. However, I 
just thought of a way I might use them. Port them to Win32, carry the 
various versions around on a CD and play with them in the computer labs. 
Three of my four CS classes will be in a lab, so there'd be a good chance 
of it getting noticed.

I have, by the by, run into problem with v.2. I need to try it again and 
pipe my error messages so I can get help with them.

Anyway, back on topic. I'd be using the discs both for myself and as 
promotional items. I probably wouldn't be selling them, since for one 
thing, I'd have to sell a few hundred thousand of them to seriously defray 
the cost of a round-trip flight to Europe. 

Comments?

Andrew

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