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Subject:	Re: Rebuilding 2.04 from source
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Hi,

On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:17:24 PM UTC-5, Louis Santillan wrote:
> So rugxulo & Rod are following.  I am looking to
> build DJGPP completely from scratch on a DOS box.
> If you reference typical GCC porting guides [1][2]
> [3][4], you start by building binutils, then GCC's
> deps (if using 3.x or later), then GCC, all using
> the typical ./configure && make && make install.

GNU is very POSIX oriented, so you need the appropriate
tools (Bash, Gawk, Grep, Make, CoreUtils) just to try
to build almost anything. It's not impossible, but
it's definitely not easy to bootstrap all of that.

I've built GCC 2.7.2.3 fairly easily before in pure
DOS, but I never tried the (SFN friendly?) BinUtils
2.9.5. Juan showed that libc is fairly easy to build,
but I haven't done a lot of that. 2.7.2.3 can build
later versions (2.95), allegedly, maybe even 3.4.x
(K&R support?).

It's not totally hopeless, and I'd even go so far as
to say I could (almost) be helpful (for once!).  :-)
But I'm not sure how easy it will be overall.

I'm definitely interested, at least passively, but I
don't have the energy to rebuild everything myself!
But if you have a specific app you're stuck on,
feel free to ask questions (not that I'm an expert,
but it's certainly far from impossible).

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