Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:11:42 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Running djgpp programs under Windows?


> How is the new (GO32-less) djgpp likely to change matters?
> When are these two problems that you mention, likely to be solved?
> How is the arrival of Windows 95 / etc likely to change matters?

With the absense of the extender, all the issues for itnerfacing with
Windows reside in the program itself - it's just a plain DPMI program.
In theory, with the right libraries and linker (or executable
converter), you could make a pure Win32 application.  The catch is
that we don't have the right libraries and executable converter, nor
do we have a resource compiler (which isn't as big a deal).

> Again: please how easy would it be to allow the new djgpp have an option to
> compile so the program runs in real mode?

That's not a djgpp issue.  That's a gcc issue.  If gcc produces
real-mode code in a real-mode format (or a convertible format), then
it produces real-mode code.  DJGPP is about 32-bit code.  If you're
doing 16-bit code, you don't need djgpp at all.