wilyfans
[Top] [All Lists]

Anyone out there to help with Wily?

To: "" <>
Subject: Anyone out there to help with Wily?
From: Mack Wallace <>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:11:24 +0000
Hi,

I just recently compiled Wily on a version of Amiga Unix. Given the dearth of 
software available that will run on the old machine, it’s nice to have 
something that can act as an editor and a means to click around the file system.

Along with the Wily tarball (for 0.13.42) is a directory called tools which has 
a number of “add-ons.” / accompanying programs. Unfortunately, I am having 
difficulty getting any of them to compile or work, and was wondering if there 
was anyone who could lend a hand.

Under ./tools/old/wilytoys. I would like to compile this for the man viewer and 
the html viewer. I know neither will be particularly impressive, but would be a 
nice little addition. However, I can not seem to get wcat to compile. There are 
two .h files which I don’t have. There’s a util.h and a libmsg.h that are 
missing. I know that the util.h is probably a shortcoming of the Amiga SVr4 
installation, but the libmsg.h I presume is part of the libmsg library that is 
compiled as part of Wily. Looking at the includes, there is a msg.h, and the 
calls in this are similar to one in wcat.h. However, there are some items, like 
Mqueue, that are not in msg.h. I’m presuming that this is because the old 
libmsg library may have had a different interface? Is there a fix for this?

Second, there is a ./tools/win. Per the readme, this is a simple terminal that 
resides in a Wily window? I have managed to compile this. However, when I try 
to invoke it in Wily, I get ‘/bin/sh: win: not found.’ If I try to run it from 
the command line, it says ‘win: unable to open master pty at win.c:729 in 
openmaster(). I assume this is saying that it can’t find the Wily program 
running (even though it is).

So aside from the questions I have above, is there anybody out there?

Regards,

Mack

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

Disclaimer: Neither Andrew Taylor nor the University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering take any responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU