Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:21:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:

>> Again, that's not the size what matters. And I cannot use DJGPP for the
>> same reason as stated above.
> Hmm... We definately need a standard set of compilers :)

And from what I've heard, the OpenDOS sources needs a gazillion compilers
to build... Yes, definitely, we'd need some standard free compilers! I
don't know of good 16-bit C compilers for free (in the GPL sense), but for
assembler we could use NASM like Mark is already doing. One of the first
thing that should be done when the OpenDOS sources are done would be to
convert all the assembler sources we can find to NASM. Whew! Most of the
DOS internals are in asm, so I guess there is a lot of code to translate!

Pierre Phaneuf