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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>I have used Cygwin for various tasks over the last few years on Wintel
  35 </I>&gt;<i>boxes and today was playing around with a build of IRCServices under
  36 </I>&gt;<i>Cygwin.
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  38 </I>&gt;<i>It compiles without problems with the exception of the tools. It also runs
  39 </I>&gt;<i>to a degree. At this time I have not investigated why tools do not compile
  40 </I>&gt;<i>nor why certain parts of services fail unexpectedly. (e.g. forcenickchange
  41 </I>&gt;<i>gets disabled at runtime despite connecting with an appropriate protocol
  42 </I>&gt;<i>module, I suspect an issue with static modules since configure caused
  43 </I>&gt;<i>static modules to be selected - what does services do for protocol in the
  44 </I>&gt;<i>event of a static module compilation?).
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  46      See send.c for the details, but the protocol_xxx variables are defined
  47 in send.c, which has a load-module handler that copies the values from
  48 whatever protocol module is loaded.  Come to think of it, that could be the
  49 problem--I'll take a look.
  50
  51 &gt;<i>The FAQ mentions that a Windows version does not currently exist and would
  52 </I>&gt;<i>likely be implemented through the submission of patches enabling it to run.
  53 </I>&gt;<i>Since services is almost fully functional under Cygwin, as an interim
  54 </I>&gt;<i>measure, would patches for running under Cygwin be welcomed? I will
  55 </I>&gt;<i>probably look at a native Windows port later this year when I have more
  56 </I>&gt;<i>time available and version 5 has gone &quot;gold&quot;.
  57 </I>&gt;<i>
  58 </I>&gt;<i>BTW, on the subject of the FAQ, Questions C9 and F9 are the same
  59 </I>&gt;<i>(Unreal /gline info).
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  61      Sounds like you're looking at an old copy of the FAQ.  As far as a
  62 Windows port goes, I'd rather limit it to Cygwin support, because it seems
  63 like a whole bunch of patches and conditional compilation would be needed
  64 for native Windows support.  (You're welcome to try, of course, and let me
  65 know how it comes out; I'll think about it if it doesn't require too many
  66 changes to the code.)
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  68   --Andrew Church
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