For at least several months, I've had this on the Contribute page:
http://www.freedos.org/contribute/
- Port FreeDOS utilities to OpenWatcom C and NASM (currently our
preferred C compiler and Assembler for FreeDOS)
So we're trying to encourage folks to Port these programs to an open source
compiler. But as Tom said, many devs use whatever is their favorite
compiler. That said, I'd like to see folks port these to the open source
tools.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 9:45 AM David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org> wrote:
> While I was doing something else, I went on a tangent that led me to
> look at the FreeDOS EDIT source code. I noticed some problems.
>
> The first of these problems is that it appears at first glance EDIT has
> a build dependency on Borland C. At least, there isn't a build script
> for any other compiler. I think it was last packaged before Watcom was
> the official preferred C compiler. I think it would be very important to
> try and port it to Watcom for the next version of FreeDOS at least.
>
> Next, it depends on the DFlat+ library, which I failed to find in the
> software archives! I have an old copy of it from the FreeDOS 1.1
> archives, but how is anyone new supposed to build this program without
> its primary dependency?
>
> Happy Hacking,
>
> David E. McMackins II
> Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972)
> Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889)
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