On Tue, 7 May 2024, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote:
I don't think there is really a point in trying to get the whole thing compiled with FOSS tools. This is just a Sisyphos task, for no or very little gain. There is a reason why they included the old, matching tools in the release.
I think it's actually somewhat of "in theory everything would work the same in practice; in practice not so." The Watcom tools are explicitly clones of the Microsoft ones, but they're just different enough to throw the code.
The point is that in some circles (e.g., Debian) a program isn't truly open source unless the entire build can be done exclusively with open source software.
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