IMHO, both are needed: DJGPP is perfect for compiling Unix tools.
Openwatcom is very good for new or simple programs. Porting from Borland
to OpenWatcom is ususaly not too dificult.
I have a lib of functions for OW that contain all the screen functions,
this is the worst part of converting. If someone need it just ask.
Blair Campbell escreveu:
Please excuse my cluelessness here. I know DJGPP is great for
porting Unix tools, but with regards to OpenWatcom, does it lack in
the area of the C libraries or is it just the need for sh/bash, sed,
and other things used in the make process? Not that it matters, I was
just wondering!
DJGPP is a complete GNU development system, with libc, GCC, G++, and
everything else.
Not quite. DJGPP is a little better: it's library is not GNU, it comes
from BSD (or somewhere else) and can be used for comercial software.
Is OpenWatcom's DOS compiler 16-bit DPMI too?
No. Openwatcom is only capable of producing straight 16-bit apps or
32-bit DPMI apps.
On modern machines (beeeter than 386), it is just easyer to make a 32
bit app then a 16 bit DPMI. That is why there is so little support for it.
Alain
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