[linrad] Re: Windows

[<leif@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyway, I guess my point is this: straight C code or Fortran code is
> easy to move back and forth between Windows and Linux.  It's just a
> re-compile, in general.  But GUIs are another matter entirely.  Python
> supports the creation of powerful and good-looking GUIs on multiple
> platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac) with virtually no changes in the code.
"just a recompile" is the problem. I do not know how to do that:-(
The GUI of Linrad is just straight C code, I can easily recompile it for
MSDOS by using the Watcom C compiler and the graphics library that
is supplied with it, but that is not worth the trouble with the 32 MB
memory limitation that comes with this obsolete software package.

I am fully aware that others want to write more conventional user
interfaces that might be easier to maintain but that is not something
I want to spend my time on.

> Although I am a neophyte -- and like you, not really a programmer -- I
> am nevertheless becoming a Python believer.
OK. They say it is simple - but it is like mathematics. A mathematician
loves to say a formula is simple if it is really compact;-) My way of
thinking is the other way around. I need to see in detail what
computations I do in order to understand what I am doing.....

Since it is obviously an easy thing to do I still hope someone who knows
how to do it would like to send me a tarball that produces a really simple
Windows executable under Linux. (plus info about what packages, MinGW and/or
others that have to be installed) I think I would be able to continue
from that:-)

73

Leif / SM5BSZ




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