OSLib 6.11 Released

[Stewart Brodie]

In message <ec76a8034a.druck at druck.freeuk.net>
          "David J. Ruck" <druck at freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 21 Sep 2000 Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > OSLib Version 6.11 - Tony van der Hoff - 19/09/2000
> [Snip]
> > *  All #includes in the library headers now specify the OSLib: library
> > path to  avoid possible name clashes with other libraries.
> 
> This has caused considerable hassle for those of use who are building RISC
> OS applications on other platorms (either to use superior debugging tools
> or to build with cross compilers which aren't currently available for RISC
> OS).
> 
> Other platforms have no concept of path variable to be able interpret
> OSLIb: and further more ':' is not a valid filename character on some
> filesystems, so renaming all the files with this prefix is not an option.
> The only solution is to alter all the header files to strip the path
> variable each time a build of OSLib is copied/ported to another platform,
> which is far from desirable.

<AOL>Me too!</AOL>

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