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  15     <B>Matt Lewandowsky</B>
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  17        TITLE="[IRCServices] Errors compiling ircservices">matt.l at techie.com
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  19     <I>Wed Oct 18 04:28:47 PDT 2000</I>
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  34 <PRE>At 19.20 10/17/2000, Ian R. Justman wrote:
  35 &gt;<i>You are pretty much on your own here.
  36 </I>
  37 I had figured I would be. I was hoping for some form of guidance, however.
  38 If this looked familiar to someone, I was hoping to hear that so I wouldn't
  39 have to bang my head so much since someone has done some banging already.
  40
  41 &gt;<i>When Andy Church originally wrote Services for us, then later GPLed it, he
  42 </I>&gt;<i>specifically didn't support it under Windows, nor would he ever.
  43 </I>
  44 I am quite aware of this. However, my needs unfortunately include Windows.
  45 I am not looking for a supported version. To quote from the FAQ (3.):
  46 &quot;Unless and until someone contributes patches allowing Services to run
  47 under Windows, you'll need a different operating system (try Linux or
  48 FreeBSD).&quot; I was hoping to come up with the necessary patches. If they
  49 aren't, in fact, useful to you guys, then I'll not bother trying to get
  50 them to the right place.
  51
  52 &gt;<i>You are better off using a UNIX-type machine for any kind of Internet
  53 </I>&gt;<i>server, be it Linux (under which Services was developed, FreeBSD,
  54 </I>&gt;<i>whatever.  All of those are free.
  55 </I>
  56 However, this is incompatible with my reasons for needing IRC and Services.
  57 And, being on a dial-up connection and all, I'm forced to actually run
  58 services on the same machine as UnrealIRCd.
  59
  60 &gt;<i>And as we have seen time and time again, Windows has had more holes than
  61 </I>&gt;<i>than a block of Swiss cheese.  Part horrendous coding on Microsoft's part,
  62 </I>&gt;<i>part open-by-default policies.
  63 </I>
  64 I know this, and am willing to take the risks. Otherwise, I wouldn't be
  65 interested in compiling for Windows, would I?
  66
  67 &gt;<i>Hence the phrase:  &quot;Windows:  /n/ 1.  Easily opened.  2.  Easily broken.&quot;
  68 </I>&gt;<i>
  69 </I>&gt;<i>Services has been, and probably shall always be, a UNIX-only program.
  70 </I>
  71 Hmm... It seems as if it *should* run on any platform you can compile a
  72 compatible IRCd on, at least to me.
  73
  74 &gt;<i>Save yourself the effort and headaches and get Linux or FreeBSD.  Both are
  75 </I>&gt;<i>good.  Both are free.
  76 </I>
  77 It's much more of a headache to try to fit Linux or FreeBSD onto the same
  78 laptop hard disk that Windows is running on. (~250MB free.) AND to run both
  79 at the same time. (Yes, I know about VMWare and such. But by the time I get
  80 all that done with, I'll probably have services running fairly well on Win32.)
  81
  82 Back to tinkering with this... It successfully compiled, so now I get to
  83 see if the result is usable...
  84
  85 --Matt
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