[DGD] Windows 95 compilation

[Gregory D Lewis]

For those who have Windows 95 but are without a C compiler (e.g. MSVC 5) this
may be an encouraging report if you are wanting to compile DGD releases
yourself.

I don't know if anyone else has tried but I managed to compile (and run) dgd 1.1
with the gnuwin32 tools from Cygnus (which are free :) on my Windows 95 box at
work.  I set the HOST variable in the Makefile to LINUX and also needed to 
use the random functions from the pc directory, i.e. I had to move overwrite
src/host/lrand48.c with src/host/pc/local.c (which contains calls to lrand and
srand rather than lrand48 and srand48) as the gnuwin32 implementation doesn't
contain the lrand48 and srand48 functions.  Maybe a new host configuration
could be created for this option?

Notes: 

1. I only ran the kernel mud and I only logged on and shut it down, but that
   much worked :)

2. This was using the beta 19.1 version of the gnuwin32 tools, I haven't tried
   with any earlier versions.  My personal experience is that 19.1 is more
   robust and complete than 18 though.

-- 
Greg Lewis                              Applied Maths Department
Email : glewis at maths.adelaide.edu.au    University of Adelaide
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