Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/08/17:25:19
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 1997, Donald Jeff Dionne wrote:
>
> > > DJGPP + NASM (or GAS or whatever) would do very well for 32-bit code, but
> > > as DJGPP cannot do 16-bit real-mode, we've got to find a free C compiler
> > > for DOS for OpenDOS/16! I didn't check LCC more when I saw that it was
> > > 32-bit itself. We need a compiler that runs on less than 386.
> > >
> > > Micro-C anyone? It's going to be for porting from ASM anyway...
> >
> > "We now have the 'bcc' GPL'd K&R compiler for minix running on Linux"
> >
> > ftp://linux.mit.edu/
>
> Yes, while bcc runs on Linux and produces 16-bit code, we'd rather develop
> under DOS, right? ;-)
Absolutely. OpenDOS should be compilable IN DOS, and not reliant
on other OS's IMHO. Therefore I believe we MUST use a DOS
compiler. This doesn't mean that OS's such as Linux can't be of
help in the task though. I do my DOS programming in DOSemu
sessions running 6.22 and OD. Much more stable programming
environment. Also, cross compilation might be possible too, but
only optionally, and not FORCED.
Also, I think that we should shy away from K&R, since there are
lots of ANSI compilers available, and we're taking OD into the
future, not the past.
Anyone?
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