To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: gcc.2.3.3
From: alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 21:44:49 EST
Organization: Disorganization

John Fletcher <src4src!mcdhup!rutgers!pcmail.aston.ac.uk!ECM9093> writes:

> Its all very well someone having negative feelings about DOS.  There
> are a lot of us out here using DOS, becomeing aware of GNU etc and
> migrating towards the Unix world without having to buy a new computer
> and throw away all the software and experience we have built up.  I
> would like to be able to use the Objective C runtime system which I
> am told comes with GCC 2.3.x.  If there is some way of us sharing the
> work to get GCC 2.3.3 working under DJGPP, then I am interested in
> doing some of it.  Design decisions to make life unhelpful for DOS
> users seems not to be encouraging that our journey is worthwhile.
> Its the old story "If I were you I wouldn't start from here."

Thanks for your input John. Let me try to get a copy of the whole
2.3.3 beast including the obj-c runtimes, and then assess what the
damage will be. I'll post again on this topic once I have a better
idea of what's going to be required. 

PS My guess is to bootstrap the compiler under OS/2 using EMX, since
it can handle long filenames, and make a DOS exe as well. But that's
only a guess...


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