From: Bob Supnik [bsupnik@nauticusnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:48 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: 2.9-6 (Re: SIMH 2.9-5 - first official VAX release)

1. I don't believe the VAX (or PDP-10) simulators will build on DEC-C
VAX, because it doesn't support 64b integers.  It does build on DEC-C
Alpha, and there's a build_vms.com file in the distribution.

2. For Windows, you need to include wsock32.dll as part of the library
load specification.

/Bob

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:13:22 GMT, "Hans Vlems" <hvlems@iae.nl> wrote:

>Bob,
>
>let me start with admitting that I'm not much of a C programmer.
>I tried to make simh V2.9 work on a VAX 7.2 system (with DEC-C)
>and got a compiler error:
>
>$ @build_vms
>
>Runtime Debugger Won't Be Included At Link.
>Compiling On A VAX Machine.
>
>Compling The SYS$DISK:[.LIB]SIMH-VAX.OLB Library.
>Using Compile Command:
>CC/PREFIX=ALL/NOOPTIMIZE/NODEBUG/NEST=PRIMARY/NAME=(AS_IS
>,SHORTENED)/INCLUDE=(SYS$DISK:[])
>
>        SYS$DISK:[]SCP_TTY.C
>%DCL-W-IVKEYW, unrecognized keyword - check validity and spelling
> \SHORTENED\
>%LIBRAR-W-OPENIN, error opening DISK$DISK:[SIMH]SCP_TTY.OBJ; as input
>-RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>%DELETE-W-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for DISK$DISK:[SIMH]SCP_TTY.OBJ;*
>-RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>        SYS$DISK:[]SIM_SOCK.C
>%DCL-W-IVKEYW, unrecognized keyword - check validity and spelling
> \SHORTENED\
>%LIBRAR-W-OPENIN, error opening DISK$DISK:[SIMH]SIM_SOCK.OBJ; as input
>-RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>%DELETE-W-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for DISK$DISK:[SIMH]SIM_SOCK.OBJ;*
>-RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>        SYS$DISK:[]SIM_TMXR.C
>%DCL-W-IVKEYW, unrecognized keyword - check validity and spelling
> \SHORTENED\
>
>Next I tried to build it with C++ on W98. There I got this linker error:
>
>--------------------Configuration: simh v29 - Win32
>Debug--------------------
>Linking...
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _listen@8
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _bind@12
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _htonl@4
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _htons@4
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _socket@12
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _WSAStartup@8
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _ntohl@4
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _WSAGetLastError@0
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _accept@12
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _recv@16
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _send@16
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _WSACleanup@0
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _closesocket@4
>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _ioctlsocket@12
>Debug/simh v29.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 14 unresolved externals
>Error executing link.exe.
>
>simh v29.exe - 15 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>
>What I want to do is build the PDP-11 simulator. Now I did not modify any C
>file. Just the build_vms.com file
>because DCL does not like the extra <CR> character. The compiler is not too
>fond of it either but assumes it's
>white space.
>
>The question is, can you point me to a configuration/installation guide?
>
>Hans Vlems
>
>PS
>Any chance of getting a B7700 emulator?
>
>Bob Supnik <bsupnik@nauticusnet.com> wrote in message
>news:ki2rbuk0v10h9r2j9qcnlc5gvo1pnt5jbi@4ax.com...
>> Found the bug that was causing integer overflow in SDL installation.
>> In EDIV, if divisor and dividend had different signs, and the quotient
>> was 0, the test for overflow was incorrect.
>>
>> Both this and the CASEL fix are released as 2.9-6 today.
>>
>> There is still a bug in handling compressed libraries.  Unless the
>> system libraries are decompressed, installations fail.  This bug does
>> not occur in Tim Stark's TS10, so a prize to the person who finds the
>> discrepancy between the two simulators ;)
>>
>> /Bob
>