Hi, On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: >> >> I agree that OpenWatcom would be nicer than Borland C++ here. >> Not sure if Pascal would be nice for TSR drivers: You can do >> it (see keyboard driver [FD KEYB]) but the extra effort is that you have >> to translate existing filesystem code which probably is in C. > > I've never tried, but I'm pretty sure that Turbo Pascal can link to > Turbo C code. > > At least FreePascal (32-bit host) uses "register" calling convention > (like Delphi) by default, but it can mix and link with "cdecl" code > too (and others). The 16-bit DOS target is still unfinished, only > supports "pascal" calling convention (AFAIK), for now. The v3.1 > snapshots have internal tools, so no external NASM nor WLINK needed. > Not sure how to (easily) mix C with that (yet), but it can't be > impossible. I assume manual linking is still possible, among many > other things, but the very few people working on it are doing so in > their spare time, so (understandably) it's not moving very fast.
FreePascal 3.0.0 has been released. It now officially supports various memory models for i8086-msdos target (via cross-compiler, e.g. Win32 or Linux host): 1). ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/3.0.0/i8086-msdos/fpc-3.0.0.i386-win32.cross.i8086-msdos.exe 2). http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/3.0.0/ 3). http://wiki.freepascal.org/DOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
