Hi, This might be longer than necessary, but I figured I may as well dump it all on ya, just to be complete!
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mercury Thirteen <mercury0x0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the links, I appreciate that but I know... pretty much nothing of > Pascal lol My only experience has been with the "easy" HLL (portable) stuff. Over the past few years, I tried to learn some (but not all) of the various Pascal-y languages and dialects. So I spent a fair bit of time toying with various compilers. Here's some links to tutorials, if you think that'll help, if you think FPC is more feasible than using OpenWatcom/C (presumably for the much better string support): * http://www.taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal * http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/park/3230/pas/pasles00.html * http://www.standardpascal.com/ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Pascal_and_C * http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/images/20803/TP_55_OOP_Guide.pdf * http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/ So I'm not much help on the systems-level stuff. Plus, since most existing legacy TP code is compiler specific (inline asm/BASM), you almost definitely can't recompile Paku Paku or FD KEYB (or presumably CompInfo or Which or whatever) with ppcross8086.exe without heavy changes. (But I doubt it's impossibly hard. Inline asm is supported but a bit differently.) In fact, due to platform limitations, getting it to work under HX was a feat in itself (kludge.pas needed for compiling with smartlinking), so even that isn't 100% automatic. I would've (obviously?) preferred to have a go32-v2 (32-bit DOS) hosted version of the "i8086/msdos"-targeted compiler, but the very few people from FPC who hang out on BTTR's forum didn't even pretend to care. So I don't know what tests (if any) they run on the snapshots. Maybe not even tetris and samegame, and those were the only two official examples that I know were tested once before. Granted, it *does* work quite a lot, even now. But nobody had time, skill, energy, or interest to perfect it (yet, if ever). But doing it all myself sounded impossibly hard (esp. these days, too tired), so I've not even pretended to hack / rebuild FPC directly. I only mention it because it is quite a nice compiler and has had some decent work done on it in recent years (and was April 2014 SourceForge Project of the Month). It's certainly better than GCC or even FBC, esp. for 16-bit support (obviously). P.S. Do read their wiki, if actually interested. In particular, it does support LFNs and multiple memory models. Actually, there's only one "compiler" .EXE, but the separate .ZIPs have different runtimes / libs (since the bigger ones are of more experimental quality, plus probably to keep .ZIP size down). > I think I just need to clean up my code and things should be fine. Actually, > I can't even say "my code". The directory traversal routine (which is the > root of the problem) was part of an old public domain program I found years > ago. > > I'll get it working eventually. :) writeln('Good luck!'); ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
