I currently have 4 projects in my queue for NEW programs for DOS. Once I finish those, I'd be happy to collaborate in translating the base system to Watcom.
Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 08/11/2018 01:32 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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) > > www.mcmackins.org <http://www.mcmackins.org> www.delwink.com > <http://www.delwink.com> > www.eff.org <http://www.eff.org> www.gnu.org <http://www.gnu.org> > www.fsf.org <http://www.fsf.org> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
