Hi!
20-Сен-2004 21:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
BB> Arkady, your mail reached the list. No idea how late you sent it. Before
BB> your mail to me? if so, it was 4 hours delayed.
My letter was created at 16:33 of local time (currently here is 23:15).
After this I _resent_ this letter (because SF failed to talk back with our
postserver to verify my address?) around 10-15 times.
BB> Openwatcom 1.3 still not official yet, though Bart mentioned a "1.3" set
BB> of packages
Directories contents are similar. As I understand, my explanation
should work also for 1.3. (And, if OW team hear me and fix WCL, which
searches executables only through PATH, then WCL.BAT may be simplified).
>> I already explain this. Let me repeat.
BB> There were indeed a few questions:
BB> 1)what packages do I need for a minimal OpenWatcomC environment in DOS
"Common files" and "C files".
BB> 2)what packages do I need for kernel compiling using OpenWatCom in DOS
BB> (this might theoretically be fewer packages than [1])
Same as above, and these packages explicitly mentioned in build.txt.
BB> 3)Which files do I absolutely require for an installed [1]?
BB> programs like SETEDIT can be deleted, for example.
See my list of _my_ unpacked files. Note: to reduce size, I remove
files like wcc386.exe.
BB> 4)Which files do I absolutely require for an installed [2] ?
BB> (probably not as many files as in [3])
Same as above. As I explain in previous letter, there will be around
~6M of total.
Hm. Also, kernel itself need only _one_ library file: clibm.lib. Add
here library files for small/tiny memory model (for sys, patchobj) and
compact model (for exeflat) and you reduce LIB286 directory from ~3.3M to
~2M. Also, you may remove (small!) utilities like dmpobj.exe and wdis.exe
(thus reduce BINW from ~2.4M to ~1.7M) and header files like tchar.h, mb*.h
and graph*.h (thus reduce from ~380k to ~200k). Total: 2.0+1.7+0.2=~4M. I
don't think that this gain (~2M from (uncompressed) ~6M) worth of playing.
BB> What I'm most interested in is [4]:
BB> Every OpenWatcom file not needed for compiling the kernel can be deleted.
BB> This is the openwatcom total package I'll add to the FreeDOS
BB> distribution someday.
BB> And then another package will be delivered with add-on files so I can
BB> turn [4] into a normal usable minimal Openwatcom ([3]).
>>C:\LANG\WATCOM\BINW\WCC.EXE
BB> which packages to get is clear, that information is in config.txt as you
BB> mentioned.
BB> CMDEDIT seems like it can go, if using EDIT for example. So, this file
BB> is overhead.
I don't know what is this program and how used (as I reported to OW
team, not enough descriptions), so I remain this file.
BB> Any other files of your above list not needed for compiling FreeDOS? I
BB> think you already mentioned the bare minimum except this one file
BB> (CMDEDIT instead of FreeDOS EDIT).
BB> is the WTOUCH program needed?
No. See above.
>>Whats all, folks.
BB> Almost correct: as the famous words go: "That's all, folks!"
Sorry, forget right wording. :( :)
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