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In article <4131b54f-b34d-4a84-ada6-3443ed9efce9 AT googlegroups DOT com>, 
glaux AT centrum DOT cz says...
>> My point was that you may want to ask CWS directly. He's as close
>> as you're going to get to the truth. Daniel Borca is, AFAIK,
>> long since disappeared from DJGPP, so he's not much help.
>
>I hope that Juan Manuel Guerrero can tell us when he like to compile some 
DJGPP packages into DXEs. I don't need it, I'm just curious because Neozeed 
asked for that - in Quake2 port the unloading seems to be very necessary 
torstand that all such DLL code w


I don't want to make is sound like I'm complaining about DJGPP the DLL thing 
or anytihng like that.  I'm very appreciative for the DJGPP project for not 
only bringing GCC to the MS-DOS platform back when it was more active, but 
also for remaining active!  It's still pretty amazing to see GCC 5 on MS-
DOS!

We've hit some bumps where it looks like some TCP/IP functionality is now 
included in the 2.05 which overlaps with WaTTCP, which causes various ioctl 
errors.  I haven't even begun to look into what is going on, as it was 
easier (and from what I gathered recommended) to remain on the older 2.03.  

DLM doesn't appear to support DJGPP's DPMI hooks that we rely on, and DXE's 
don't unload cleanly.  It's not the end of the world.  If people really need 
that functionality it is available on Linux and Windows.

That said, we built static versions of the Quake2 executable, and they seem 
to work fine for our original purposes.  Which was more to see just how much 
Quake 2 is reliant on Quake 1, and to be able to turn older PC's into 'Quake 
terminals'.

Again I don't want to sound like I'm all demanding you guys add 
functionality because it benefits me, getting 2.05 out the door is _FAR_ 
more important to show people that DOS/DJGPP is very much alive.

Thanks for all your efforts!