On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote:
Sadly not. Only the binaries are released under MIT through the repository.Does that mean we finally have a genuinely open sourced OMF linker? -hpa
It's my opinion that including them was more of a fortuitous accident than actual intent. I'd _like_ to try to migrate as much as possible away from them and onto something like OpenWatcom 1.9, but it's proving to be a pain in the neck. Ideally, I'd like to organize the source a little better too so that there isn't a lot of stuff being compiled and assembled in the INC folder.
I started bashing on a copy of the tree, and I started to get stuff rolled in Watcom, but mainly ran into trouble over parse(), sysloadmsg() and sysdispmsg(), which are ASM and mostly call into deep, dark, officially undocumented parts of DOS and could probably be replaced, if I could figure out what they were doing in the first place...
No luck doing the same with the kernel or any of the other ASM stuff. Watcom's MASM emulation isn't 5.1-tier.
-uso.
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