Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 08:42:45 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: tesla AT lamar DOT colostate DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Objective C

> I have a very limited understanding of objective c, but from what I do know
> I thought that besides the necessary compiler, etc. one needs some run-time
> libs.  Does the DJGPP objective c stuff contain all that kind of stuff?

Yes.

> If there is someone who uses DJGPP and objective c could you drop me a little
> description of what kind of things you do and what you had to do to set up
> objective c?  Are there any limitations, like, if you don't have the djgpp
> objective c file on another computer (say at work) then you can't take your
> objective c program to work, and run it, even if you copy /b go32.exe+f f.exe?

Objc programs are self-contained (minus go32, of course).

> Also, someone mentioned about six months ago, before v1.11 was released, that
> the new version of go32 would allow the video driver to be linked in to
> go32 so that one wouldn't have to carry around stdvga or something everywhere
> you went.  Is this true for v1.11?

go32 includes a vesa driver instead of standard VGA.