Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 17:20:21 +0200 (EET)
From: Indrek Mandre <indrek AT warp DOT edu DOT ee>
To: "J. Kroll" <hyena AT u DOT washington DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: HELP: SVGALIB & FONT8x8.c
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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, J. Kroll wrote:

> I just tried to test out compiling a Linux program under DJGPP and I ran
> into the terrible problem of the font that I load not functioning very
> well...
> That is, instead of space, it writes <, and instead of other letters it
> writes other things... I don't really know what is wrong.
> Does the SVGALib for djgpp just not support anything involved fonts?
> That would be a problem, though I suspect I could work around it.
> Also, are executables supposed to be so large?
> A 15k Linux program comes out to 300k+... I suppose it doesn't matter at
> all these days but I think maybe I've got something setup improperly.

The older versions of svgalib than 1.2.9 are broken (compressed fonts).
As djgpp's svgalib is 1.2.7, it wont work with it. I ran into the same
problem with game lincity. It compiled and worked fine exept fonts were
strange. I do not know how to fix it. I'm sure that Mihai Cartoaje can
give you the rightest answer. Try: moisemih AT ift DOT ulaval DOT ca.

Executables are in DOS static. There are no shared libraries in DOS.
Try to compile with -static in Linux.

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