[Cialug] Project

[Tim Champion]

I usually lurk on this list, but this time I have something to say.

I have recently written a strait C program in Linux for a project at work
that received a high volume of small messages. The C program received the
messages from a pub/sub message broker, and build and managed a doubly
linked list as a FIFO queue, and then parsed and inserted the data into a
couple of db's.

I use pthreads in C, and used gcc to compile.  I'm not sure why you need
MSC-6.  I didn't know what that was, and when I looked it up, it appeared
to be a Microsoft thing.  If you need to write C, just write C code, and
compile it with gcc.

We (me and another developer) wrote this program for a paying client. If
you are interested in talking with us about doing the work, I work at
Slash/Web Studios.
www.slashwebstudios.com 515-309-2580


Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:

> I’ve ported a bunch to and from Linux – the degree of difficulty is
> usually determined by how much the original author took advantage of
> “special” features offered by his compiler and whether or not the author
> was POSIX-minded.
>
> How much do you have and what kind of a schedule are you on?
>
> ...Morris
>
>
> On 5/30/14 2:57 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ever tried to port a straight C program to Linux? There apears
>> to be a book in 1995, ..
>>
>> Main issues would be:
>>
>>   * UI - the old system has an ANSI graphic UI
>>   * MT - it used ctask for multi-tasking
>>   * SER - it used two or three serial ports
>>
>> The main reason is that it is almost possible to create a MSC-6
>> environment to compile now, and I just realized that my machine from 20
>> years ago I have been keeping on the shelf for this eventuality is dead.
>>
>>         TIA!
>>
>>         Lee
>>
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