Hi Brad! Brad Chapman wrote: > > machines? It should work fine on Linux machines (which is where is was > developed) but I worry about how well it will compile on other machines. I only have Linux boxes, so I can't help with this. > 2. PCRE (Perl C Regular Expression Library): > ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/ > 3. libunicode-0.5: > http://www.bowerbird.com.au/download.shtml Why are these used? > I hope all of this hasn't scared people off from trying it! Well, Jeez Brad, we got our very first 'unsubscribe' from the list right after you posted this :-) Seriously. > I would > be very interested in hearing people's luck, and also hearing advice from > people who are more experienced at porting programs/writing in C then I am. So, XDBM is written in C (an early question I had). Why then are the Python bindings being done in C++? Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+