Hi Louis, On 5/2/2025 23:08, Louis Santillan wrote: > FreeDOS releases are built using RBE [0] (Release Build Environment). > RBE 4th Edition [1] is being worked on now. But it does not yet build > FreeDOS from source code. It builds FreeDOS from source which is > usually a binary zip file or a source zip file [2]. It is largely the > work of Jerome Shidel.
>From a quick glance, it seems RBE is not meant to be run from FreeDOS. I'm mainly interested in the question of building each package from source code within FreeDOS. For example, AMBREAD has a file Makefile.wcl that can be used to build the binary AMB.COM using Open Watcom C compiler that is available in FreeDOS distribution. Similarly, APPEND has a script make.bat that can be used to build APPEND.EXE using NASM assembler that is also available within FreeDOS. However, file NOTES of package ASSIGN says: Target compilers: Borland C v3.1+; Micro-C v3.13 And provides MAKEFILE and COMPILE.BAT for building binaries with these respective compilers. Since neither of those are made available by FreeDOS, one would have to port the code to a distributed compiler (Open Watcom, i16gcc, bcc, ...) and write a build script to make FreeDOS self sufficient for building this part of itself. And, of course, contribute this patch upstream in order to benefit from new releases --- in case the package is being maintained elsewhere --- or update the source code repository maintained by FreeDOS developers. Are there efforts in this regard? Does the FreeDOS project deem this as important? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
