On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 12:53:01PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > This makes me wonder: can't it compile itself? Why use MSVC/Watcom/GCC at all? > > IMO a C compiler should be build by itself unless there is a really good > reason not to. > > Tom
I agree with this opinion. Unfortunately, dev86 bcc is not self-hosting. Many of the executables exceed the limits of the small memory model, which is the only memory model supported by bcc. Last night i wrote a .bat file that builds the toolchain. This eliminates the need for DJGPP (GNU make, etc) and i think it will simplify the DOS build. Once i build libc and test against my own BCC projects, i'll post the sources and binaries. Why bother? One nice thing about BCC is that it is tuned to be able to build archaic Unix source code. In my opinion it hits a sweet spot where it is more complete than Desmet C, and more minimal than Watcom. Being able to fit a C compiler on a single floppy disk hits my nostalgic happy buttons. -Ben _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
