RE: [opendx-dev] MSVC (was: Re: dxexec: 20% perf speedup)

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>]

> Me either, since I went to Cygwin v.1.  There are problems with
> it; look at
> their mail archive under the threads "Problems with sed, make and NT4 in
> general", "Post B20 Cygwin CRLF behavior" and, for that matter, "sin6_addr
> undefined", though that one was easy to fix.

I will check.  I subscrive only to digest version of Cygwin list, because
most of the questions directed to me by Cygwin users are posted at
Cygwin-xfree mailing list, which is a low volume mailing list ( less then 10
messages per week).

> >> efforts, tweaked to create MSVC project files for OpenDX too.
>
> I haven't looked at that, no, but I'm going to get the wrappers working if
> it kills me.  Its not the wrappers, its aclocal, autoheader, automake and
> autoconf on Cygwin.  Perl.
>

I had this behavior on one NT machine, but on other it behaved.  I could not
fugure
out the cause of this mysterious configure script failure.

>
> >> ActiveDX would be a great help for Windows users.  If I understand
> correctly,
> >> users will still need MOTIF based UI (DXUI etc)?
>
> Thats right, to create apps.  But not to *deliver* apps.
>
> >> One of the other thing I am very interested is in BXDX for Linux from
> you.
> >> I might help DX community with some add-on package for DX using BX?
>
> On the priority queue, but down a bit.  Their latest version is pretty
> screwed up; they don't support the old method of adding widgets by
> compiling them in and the run-time load approach requires hacking wrl(?)
> files by hand, because the GUI tool has major bugs, including deleting
> files, and, besides, I never got it to work.

I will let Mark Hatch from ICS answer this.


>
>
> >> BTW: I have one more question beside BXDX.  What is best format for a
> >  loadable module on Windows.  Should they be compiled as *.exe or *.dll?
>
> I don't know; haven't tried it.

I am seriously considering using MSVC DLL concept for making loadable
modules.
I will experiment with CMCP chemistry modules.  If loadable modules can be
compiled and used as DLLs we should see a significant improvment in
performance
on Windows NT.

Suhaib

>
>
> Greg
>