Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A455A7B2@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: WDOSX 0.96 news; 386swat; Watcom C++ & Fortran beta releases Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:50:34 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Just a bit of updated information, for those interested ... Firstly, the web site for WDOSX has moved to : "http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/wdosx/" Secondly, for Borland C++, Borland Delphi and MSVC++ (AFAIK) developers, you should obtain the updated "kernel32" file(s) from "http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/wdosx/k32patch.zip". Thirdly, it seems that a few weeks ago, the binaries for Watcom C/C++ and Fortran V11.0c (beta) were released, although I think a full source release is still awaiting some licensing issues. See "http://www.openwatcom.org/status.html" for status information. Finally, there's an interesting link on the WDOSX web page, to "http://www.sudleyplace.com/", where you can get "386swat", a free debugger, which I haven't tried as yet, but it seems quite impressive (supports DOS, Windoze, real mode, protected mode, etc.). There's also other interesting development links on the WDOSX web page, BTW. Joe. > -----Original Message----- > From: da Silva, Joe > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:55 PM > To: 'opendos AT delorie DOT com' > Subject: New DOS stuff - WDOSX 0.96 > > The following may be of interest to DOS application developers : > > Last month, it seems (after a very long gestation), V0.96 of the > WDOSX 32 bit DOS extender was released (note that this is > *not* the same as the 0.96 beta version that was released about > a year ago - it has one or two new API functions and a number > of bug fixes). > > For those not familiar with it, WDOSX can be used with NASM, > TASM, MASM, Borland C, Borland Delphi, MSVC, Watcom C, > TMT Pascal and DJGPP (including GNU Pascal :-). It incorporates > an EXE packer, so the stubbed executable is often half the size > of the original un-stubbed executable. It supports all manner of > XMS, etc. and includes a DPMI host, but it does not support EMS > or (AFAIK) virtual memory. > > Binary and source are available at http://www.wuschel.demon.co.uk/ > (the Geocities WDOSX site has not been updated and only has the > beta version mentioned earlier). > > BTW, WDOSX can (in theory) convert some Windoze command > line applications into DOS applications, although the ones I have > tried previously, seem to have required more Win32 API functions > than WDOSX currently provides. > > Joe.