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authorDai Sato <satodai@dog.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp>2001-11-22 17:52:28 +0000
committerDai Sato <satodai@dog.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp>2001-11-22 17:52:28 +0000
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The collector has at various times been compiled under Windows 95 & NT,
with the original Microsoft SDK, with Visual C++ 2.0, 4.0, and 6, with
-the GNU win32 environment, with Borland 4.5, and recently with
-Watcom C. It is likely that some of these have been broken in the
-meantime. Patches are appreciated.
+the GNU win32 environment, with Borland 4.5, with Watcom C, and recently
+with the Digital Mars compiler. It is likely that some of these have been
+broken in the meantime. Patches are appreciated.
It runs under both win32s and win32, but with different semantics.
Under win32, all writable pages outside of the heaps and stack are
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ window colors.)
In general -DREDIRECT_MALLOC is unlikely to work unless the
application is completely statically linked.
+The collector normally allocates memory from the OS with VirtualAlloc.
+This appears to cause problems under Windows NT and Windows 2000 (but
+not Windows 95/98) if the memory is later passed to CreateDIBitmap.
+To work around this problem, build the collector with -DUSE_GLOBAL_ALLOC.
+This is currently incompatible with -DUSE_MUNMAP. (Thanks to Jonathan
+Clark for tracking this down.)
+
For Microsoft development tools, rename NT_MAKEFILE as
MAKEFILE. (Make sure that the CPU environment variable is defined
to be i386.) In order to use the gc_cpp.h C++ interface, all