Eric Auer wrote:
>
> All of them, including OpenWatcom, should be available
> for Linux, but the OpenWatcom website says that their
> Linux/BSD port is work in progress so I do not know how
> good the current version is. There are also toolkits to
> make GNU C output DOS code but you cannot use those to
> compile the FreeDOS kernel. Note that DJGPP (GNU C for
> DOS) creates binaries which need the CWSDPMI extender
> or another DPMI and need a 386 or better CPU. No real
> problem. I think there are GNU C based projects for DOS
> and Linux which can create 8086 code (who needs THAT?).
> Anyway... OpenWatcom C for DOS is a very nice compiler
> which can generate 8086, 386, DOS and Win32 binaries.
>
> If you ask me, a very easy and convenient way to compile
> FreeDOS in Linux would be to use the normal DOS toolchain
> in a DOSEMU box which can use any Linux directory as the
> simulated C: drive :-). Dosemu is also fast, at least if
> run under a 32 bit Linux kernel, as it uses the real CPU
> in a vm86 task instead of simulating a CPU as a full VM.
>
I am happily using OpenWatcom under a Linux host. The "in progress"
part is making OpenWatcom *target* Linux, but it will happily use Linux
as a host for compiling DOS-Win32-OS/2 binaries.
-hpa
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