> 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. Feel free to contribute this, and similar. > Are there efforts in this regard? Does the FreeDOS project deem this as > important? Definitively NO. There is more important (and interesting) stuff to be done. FreeDOS is about open source, not about self-hosted. Please read the manifesto. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
