Hi, On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:11 PM, Antony Gordon <cuzint...@gmail.com> wrote: > > AFAIK no one on this project is interested in building a C compiler from > scratch for > the purposes of developing FreeDOS.
Nobody's directly working on such, AFAIK, unless you count SmallerC (which is not DOS nor FreeDOS exclusive but does partially support it). > DJGPP can’t reliably generate code for all the DOS modes which rules it out, > MSC and the Borland compilers. FreePascal's i8086-msdos can target all models, but that's TP and Delphi, not ISO C nor POSIX. > The only 2 compilers that could possibly be customized would be Bruce’s C > compiler > which I hear is missing some things and OpenWatcom. DeSmet C or SmallerC both work, but they don't support all models. And the latter is always 386+ (which isn't that big a deal at this late date). Actually, I think SmallerC is quite good, and I still want to make an official package one of these days. > I guess it was/is a stupid idea anyway so there’s no real need to discuss it > further. The idea to have a slim or DOS-only build isn't stupid. But I guess most people don't have the motivation. I find it vaguely interesting, but even I would be overwhelmed trying to rebuild OpenWatcom. I still haven't tried the latest 2.0-pre builds: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openwatcom/files/open-watcom-2.0-2017-11-01/ ("open-watcom-2_0-c-dos.exe" is 107.7 MB, presumably .ZIP sfx compressed again.) IIRC, the full OW 1.9 DOS install (only for DOS targets) was "only" like 45 MB or so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
