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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP 2.05 beta 1
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On 5/4/15, Andris Pavenis (andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi)
<djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> This is announcement of DJGPP 2.05 beta 1
>
> It has numerous changes since previous DJGPP 2.04 beta 1 release in 2003.
> (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-announce/2003/12/06/22:18:05)
> Unfortunately DJGPP v2.04 was never released and old beta version slowly
> became almost unusable together with other newer DJGPP packages.
>
> More information about changes in DJGPP 2.05 beta 1 is available at
>
>      http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/kb/
>
> both in sections about changes in 2.04 and 2.05. The same information is
> also
> available in file info/kb.inf in djdev205.zip
>
> It needs a lot of testing. Please test it if you have time and/or are
> interested in any of the above features. Any level of testing would be
> appreciated.

Some dxe3gen and dxe3res issues: They are not flexible with relation to
development environment:

1. As it seems, they were designed to be run under dos-djgpp not with a
 cross-toolchain, i.e. dxe3gen expects 'gcc', 'as', 'ar' and 'ld' to be
 djgpp-targeting tools. Well, ld _can_ be changed to be a cross-ld, but
 only at compile time. User must have the ability to specify his choice
 of tools.
- We may make dxe3gen to check environment variables such as DXE_CC,
 DXE_AS, DXE_AR and DXE_LD whose values will be the names of the tools
 of choice. (Maybe even a common DXE_CROSS_PREFIX to cover all those
 at once??)
- Command line switches instead? (Environment vars seem better to me.)

2. Strict requirement for DXE_LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment is rude for
 cross-compilers. It should be optional ifndef DJGPP

3. dxe3gen sends -T dxe.ld to ld, but the user can't specify a choice
 of linker script. (One consequence is when compiling djgpp itself with
 old toolchains, the toolchain-provided dxe.ld is used instead of the
 one in the source tree.)  Maybe add a '-T' switch to dxe3gen itself??

3. Both dxe3gen and dxe3res expect little endian host.  On the other
 hand, their father tool dxegen swaps bytes as required. Needs fixing.

Thoughts?

--
O.S.