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To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:55:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: DJGPP & LINUX
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On 16 Jan 2001, at 14:56, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de> wrote:
> 
> > Up to know I do my programming in a W98-DOS-box and in plain DOS
> > 6.22.  Now the questions: What steps should I do to get all my DJGPP
> > stuff (C C++ GRX Allegro Math p2c ...)  usable and maintainable
> > under LINUX? Is there something like DJ's zip picker for LINUX
> > executables? Must I rebuild the whole thing from sources (and how)?
> 
> Probably yes. There used to be a package of DJGPP-targeting tools
> (i.e.  gcc and binutils) to run on linux, but this was a long way
> back. I don't think it's still being maintained at all.

There is no serious problems to build DJGPP targetted binutils and
gcc for Linux. At least it's so with gcc-2.95.X and any recent enough 
binutils version (including development ones from CVS). But of 
course this all is not for beginners.

If one really needs Linux to DJGPP cross-binutils and cross-compiler 
I can post URL's  for my binaries (in form of Slackware packages,
no RPMs, glibc-2.1 or newer required)

> You'ld have to build your own cross-binutils, your own cross-gcc, and
> install the 'djcrx203.zip' (not necessarily all in exactly that order,
> though). Then, after some more fiddling, you can compile DJGPP
> programs from the Linux prompt.
> 
> Prebuilt Makefiles like the one for Allegro may be too DOS-centric to
> work on Linux. 

I'm not sure Allegro makefiles will work with cross-development tools
(but I haven't tried ...)

> Summing it up: this definitely is not a task for a Linux newbie, I'd
> say. You'll be better off running your DJGPP installation inside
> DOSEMU, instead.

Andris