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[JRS]

At least i have been successfully compiling applications using portions of Jose Roca's includes.

That may be a problem. Jose hasn't authorized his includes for anything but PowerBasic and FreeBasic. He was very specific about that point when I tried to promote O2 use.

[Mike Lobanovsky]

That may be a problem. Jose hasn't authorized his includes for anything but PowerBasic and FreeBasic. He was very specific about that point when I tried to promote O2 use.

Yes, I second John's concerns in this regard.

Jose, will you please update us on what the O2 developers (and I do regard Brian's work as an important part of OxygenBasic's own development process) can and cannot do with your PowerBASIC headers as a new reincarnation of PB is evolving thanks to Brian's efforts to utilize (and more often than not bend) O2 to serve as a major compiler back end on the 64-bit Windows platforms?

[Brian Alvarez]

Hmm, i didnt know that. Lets see what Jose says about this. We are going to have to go with whatever he says.

 For compiling DDT-style applications, PluriBASIC does not need other headers than the equates for the styles and windows notifications, thats all. For SDK, the declarations are required.

[JRS]

You can't control what is free and without bounds.

Your contributions and feedback is the only hope to set direction.

[JRS]

Is the self compile Work-In-Process able to compile existing O2 examples in the distribution?

[Charles Pegge]

Yes, John. Most of them. The exception is dynamic (secondary compiling), which has been dropped in favor of main compiling. A major part of my current work is testing all the examples.

[Mike Lobanovsky]

The exception is dynamic (secondary compiling), which has been dropped in favor of main compiling.

[Charles Pegge]

You can still jit-compile in any program, but using o2_basic o2_exec etc. It's more of a consolidation.

[JRS]

I don't understand why you want to use my headers for PowerBasic if they aren't useful for 64-bit compiling. What I'm missing?

That is an obvious point I missed until now.

[Brian Alvarez]

 We are programmers John. We make the computer do whatever we want.

[JRS]

True but unfortunately we are only around for a time slice to enjoy it.

[JRS]

I have setup the initial sandbox commit for where Charles was on 12/4/2018. (last WIP zip) I will maintain the sandbox repo until Charles does a release of self compile. The benefits are interested people can see all the hard work Charles has put into his project and changes to it moving forward. Once Charles is on board and comfortable using git for source control, I will transfer the Oxygen Basic project to Charles's account so he is the owner and not just a maintainer.

[Charles Pegge]

There's more OXSCs coming down the line ...

[JRS]

I'm ready for them.

[JRS]

Will DLLC still work with self compile?