> Why not supply OpenWatcom instead? It's freely distributable. OpenWatcom is already supplied, but DJGPP is much more useful for porting GNU utilities or linux programs to DOS (like DOSFSCK in the Base FreeDOS diskset, and many games using the allegro library).
> Can DJGPP compile FreeCOM and the FreeDOS kernel? Probably not, without some work, but it wouldn't be useful anyway because I don't know what the kernel would do if it was compiled as a 32-bit program and if FreeCOM were compiled with DJGPP it would prevent using 16-bit DPMI programs (like Jazz Jackrabbit and Raptor) because the DPMI extender required to run DJGPP-compiled exes (cwsdpmi), only supports 32-bit DPMI and doesn't know how to support 16-bit DPMI. If FreeCOM were loaded resident, CWSDPMI would also be loaded resident and would cause conflicts. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
