[Simh] pdp11 and vax network

[Bill Cunningham]

I'm using old OE so I will go ahead and top post this. I don't know if the simh group has rules against top posting or not. I am learning the pcap library so yes I always have the development libraries there. Not just runtime in my linux system.

        My goal is a little hazy right now. I would like to learn more about the simh simulator API if it's called that. But no real goal there yet. As too simulating something. I would like to compile, like the old version allowed -DUSE_NETWORK=0 I think was the define at compile time. I guess I liked the choice. I never really go online with vax or pdp11 much anyway. HTH

Bill

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm 
  To: Bill Cunningham ; simh at trailing-edge.com 
  Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 12:34 AM
  Subject: RE: [Simh] pdp11 and vax network


  Hi Bill,

   

  Anything is possible, however, what is the real goal behind your question?

   

  If your build environment doesn't have the necessary components to support network activities, then you can't build binaries with network support.  The makefile looks around for components which are available on the build system and the binaries are built which will work on that system.  Even if libpcap is available on the build system, the binaries dynamically load libpcap at runtime so binaries built on a system with the necessary pieces will actually run on a different host of the same platform type and provide libpcap networking support if the executing system has libpcap available and not if it isn't available.

   

  Please explain what you are trying to achieve.

   

  Thanks.

   

  -        Mark

   

  From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Bill Cunningham
  Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 8:08 PM
  To: simh at trailing-edge.com
  Subject: [Simh] pdp11 and vax network

   

      Is it possible anymore to compile the emulators without networking support naymore. Or is that choice gone. I noticed at compile time there's a lot of dynamic libraries here being linked in at compile time.

   

  Bill

   
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