Windows Version of PDP++!

["Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu>]

I have just completed the port of PDP++ to the windows platform!  The
resulting binaries and necessary source to compile it yourself are
available for downloading.  The port makes use of the CYGWIN
environment which simulates a unix-like setup under windows, which
makes everything fairly straightforward to port.  The interviews
libraries were ported to the windows GUI by Tim Prinzing and Michael
Hines, and I added some further tweaks to this port.  Chad Dawson did
the initial steps on the port.

Please download the binaries and give them a test if you are a windows
user -- I will not have the opportunity to personally test them very
much, though I have done all the basic things and everything seems to
work.. 

The binaries install is not as clean as it will be -- I haven't got
the one-file automatic install thing working yet.  So, you basically
get the .zip (or .tar.gz if generic windows things can read that) file
that unpacks pdp++/bin/CYGWIN/*.exe, and if you click on these things
in the interface, they should start the program, opening up a console.

IMPORTANT: you must copy the cygwin1.dll file into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM

this is a critical library for the software.

the files are all on grey.colorado.edu:

Binaries:
ftp://grey.colorado.edu/pub/oreilly/pdp++/pdp++_2.0b2_bin_CYGWIN.zip

and the cygwin1.dll:
ftp://grey.colorado.edu/pub/oreilly/pdp++/cygwin/cygwin1.dll

source etc is as before:
ftp://grey.colorado.edu/pub/oreilly/pdp++/pdp++_2.0b2_src.tar.gz

new interviews library source (which also includes recent improvements
from Hines)
ftp://grey.colorado.edu/pub/oreilly/pdp++/iv-pdp-r2.0.tar.gz

If you want to compile it yourself, you need to install the cygwin
environment.  See the following for more info:

ftp://grey.colorado.edu/pub/oreilly/pdp++/cygwin/README

Happy hacking!

				- Randy