building vnc for w95

[James "Wez" Weatherall]

> I am trying to build VNC for windows 95.  The viewer built with
> no problems.  I got a number of error messages when I tried to
> build the server with MSDevStudio using the supplied .dsw.  Some were
> related
> to CORBA, and others to omnithread, so I exported the makefiles, and
started
> building with the No_Corba option using nmake, and was only partially
> successful.
>
> Problem #1: This may not be a VNC problem, but I could not build VNCHooks
> using
> the Makefile that devstudio created.  In fact I could not get the makefile
> to
> recognize any dependecies, but did get link errors because the object file
> could
> not be located.  I tried the following to test how nmake was treating
> dependencies.
> foo2.txt : foo.txt
>    copy foo.txt foo2.txt   and nmake did nothing.
> The makefile for the omnithread directory worked fine.  Nothing in the
path
> is a long
> name until I get to the omnithread,no_corba directories.
>
> Problem #2:  So I made a batch file using the command line options in
> cpp_proj, and
> got the VNCHooks.dll to compile and located in the correct directory.
When
> I run the
> makefile for the server I get unresolved reference errors for _SetHook,
and
> _UnSetHook.

You should build the server using the supplied .dsw, but with the No_CORBA
build setup.  DevStudio doesn't seem quite able to understand how to convert
projects into makefiles properly, so they often fail to work.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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