Re: NetCDF for OS/2 (32-bit)?

> Organization: Tulsa District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
> Keywords: 199401041614.AA29900

Hi Mike,

>     I am using NetCDF 2.3.2 compiled for OS/2 using Microsoft's 6.00A C
>     compiler and the msoft.mk makefile.  This is great except for the 64K
>     segment size limit inherent with the 16-bit version of OS/2.
> 
>     Are there any plans to build makefiles for 32-bit OS/2 compilers?  If I
>     needed it badly enough I could probably spend a lot of time on it and
>     make it work, but, like the rest of the world, I would rather someone
>     else do it for me.

We do all our development on UNIX systems and only use MSDOS or OS/2 systems
to test each release and do the minimum necessary to port the software to
those platforms.  This is partly because we have little expertise with MSDOS
or OS/2 systems, only limited access to platforms on which to test and port
the software, and few resources from our funding source to support non-UNIX
systems.

I expect the port to 32-bit OS/2 compilers would be easier if it started
from the UNIX Makefiles rather than the cobbled-together Microsoft msoft.mk
files for 16-bit systems, since I understand OS/2 has most of the POSIX
interfaces supported now.  This would involve running the "configure" shell
script on a UNIX system to create the Makefiles and then using those for a
first approximation.

Whenever we get around to putting together the next release (a few more
months?), we'll try to use gcc as a 32-bit compiler for OS/2 and see if it's
as straightforward as I suspect.

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