Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 16:14:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
cc: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: OpenDOS Kernel sources finally! :) 
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> On Tue, 6 May 1997, Donald Jeff Dionne wrote:
> 
> > > DJGPP + NASM (or GAS or whatever) would do very well for 32-bit code, but
> > > as DJGPP cannot do 16-bit real-mode, we've got to find a free C compiler
> > > for DOS for OpenDOS/16! I didn't check LCC more when I saw that it was
> > > 32-bit itself. We need a compiler that runs on less than 386.
> > > 
> > > Micro-C anyone? It's going to be for porting from ASM anyway...
> > 
> > "We now have the 'bcc' GPL'd K&R compiler for minix running on Linux"
> > 
> > ftp://linux.mit.edu/
> 
> Yes, while bcc runs on Linux and produces 16-bit code, we'd rather develop
> under DOS, right? ;-)

Absolutely.  OpenDOS should be compilable IN DOS, and not reliant
on other OS's IMHO.  Therefore I believe we MUST use a DOS
compiler.  This doesn't mean that OS's such as Linux can't be of
help in the task though.  I do my DOS programming in DOSemu
sessions running 6.22 and OD.  Much more stable programming
environment.  Also, cross compilation might be possible too, but
only optionally, and not FORCED.

Also, I think that we should shy away from K&R, since there are
lots of ANSI compilers available, and we're taking OD into the
future, not the past.

Anyone?

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