Nulib on the BeOS

[Matt Jensen <nospam@nospam.com>]

Hello Apple II users,

I have recently been experimenting with the Sweet16 Apple IIgs emulator
on BeOS R4.5 (I do own several real IIGSes, I just like to play around
with emulators once in a while.)

While I was trying to convert some disk images for use with the new
emulator, I found that the Nulib v2.35 source (
ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/unix/nulib325.tar.Z ) does not compile
out-of-the-box on BeOS.  I have prepared a very small patch to add BeOS
compatibility.  Here are instructions on how to compile Nulib for BeOS
R4.5:

1) Download the Nulib source from
ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/unix/nulib325.tar.Z .
2) Open a Terminal window and 'cd' to the directory that now contains
nulib325.tar.Z.
3) At the prompt, do a 'compress -d nulib325.tar.Z'.
4) Now do a 'tar xvf nulib325.tar.Z'.  A 'nulib' directory will be
created with all of the source files in it.
5) 'cd' into the new 'nulib' directory.
6) Copy the file I've attached to the end of this message (EVERYTHING
between the '========begin nudefs.dif========' and '========end
nudefs.dif========' lines) into a new file called 'nudefs.dif'.
7) Do a 'patch ./nudefs.h ./nudefs.dif'.  You should get a message
similar to 'patching file './nudefs.h'.
8) Do a 'make' to compile the sources.
9) Do a './nulib' to get a short informational message from the
newly-compiled Nulib.

That's it!  I hope any other BeOS/Sweet16/IIGS users out there find this
useful.  These changes have been submitted to the maintainer of Nulib as
well.

--Matt Jensen
(type 'moc.noivbo@nesnejm' backward to get my e-mail address.)



========begin nudefs.dif========
109a110,116
>
> /* Setup for BeOS */
> #elif defined(__BEOS__)
> #define UNIX
> #define SYSV
> #define BSD43
> #define HAS_UTIMBUF
272c279,281
< #  define O_BINARY 0    /* for non-UNIX open(); easier than #ifdefs */

---
> #  ifndef __BEOS__
> #   define O_BINARY 0    /* for non-UNIX open(); easier than #ifdefs
*/
> #  endif
========end nudefs.dif========