Re: "Reconfiguring" SwiftForth

At 01:35 PM 3/11/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>2. uncertainty of what owners of "Standard Edition" can do which one
>might assume are restricted to owners of "Professional Edition".

Basically, without SwiftForth Pro you cannot recompile Kernel.exe.

>1. a list of dependencies in directory "Src" such that one might know
>what modules must be "gilded" to kernel.exe to obtain the desired
>functionality?

The optional functions are the ones listed under Tools > Options >
Generic Options or Win32 options, plus whatever you're explicitly
loading for your application. Everything else is considered "fixed"
unless you have Pro.

>2. a set of instructions for creating a program with _ONLY_ the desired
>characteristics?

There are some examples in the manual, e.g. Section 8.5. You
can make unused features in SwiftForth unavailable, but you cannot
make them "not there" without Pro.

>My (possibly disjoint/conflicting/skew) desires are:
>1. a minimal size "exe" file.

You can't reduce beyond what you have with a gilded product
without Pro. Note that you'll still probably be vastly smaller than
most Windows programs!

>2. no implicit/explicit references to specific files ( e.g. Bmp.f which
>I wish to totally rewrite to match my application).

Your application will use what it needs. If your application only
references _your_ versions of functions in Bmp.f it doesn't matter that
they exist earlier.

>3. ability to discard irrelevant ( for my specific application )
>functionality.

As noted above, you can make unused features inaccessible, but
you cannot make them "not there" without Pro.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

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Received on Mon Mar 11 2002 - 13:05:45 PST