Hi, > On Feb 4, 2024, at 2:16 PM, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 2/4/2024 10:17 AM, Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel wrote: >> I made recompiling Edlin easy for non-programmers, so that shouldn't be a >> problem. You don't have to know a lick of C to recompile it. > > Well, part of the problem is that in order to recompile, you need to have the > compiler (toolchain) installed, which isn't necessarily easy for a > non-programmer. > > > Ralf
I have occasionally compiled edlin to provide an updated version for FreeDOS. As compile from source goes, EDLIN is not that bad. If I recall correctly, It just needs our Watcom-C to compile. Plus a little knowledge on options and such things. In general, it is extremely cumbersome to acquire all the exact required pieces to accomplish. An fairly often after spending a few hours on trying to get a successful compile, I will end up giving up. Therefore, I do that very rarely anymore for almost anything. As discussed in the online meeting, it would be nice to include dependency requirements in the package metadata. This makes me think we could possibly include the build-dependency requirements as well. Plus a per package universal build batch. That would be a lot of work and probably require frequent updating when packages change. But on the other hand, it would be very nice if all programs (excluding those made with commercial compilers like Turbo Pascal) could be built from source simply by installing the required build packages. This leads me to think, maybe we should go back to the old days when sources were in their own separate package and not included in the binaries package. Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
