Hi Roderick,
> I am the chairman of the Dutch OS/2 VOICE organisation. On OS/2 we had > the port of QT 4.78 for OS/2. A port of QT 5.13 took about 12 months by > on person working 40 hours a week. So a 32 bit platform is supported by QT. > > https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qt5-os2 That is valuable information, thank you! > I also do not know if you would need a GCC compiler for DOS ? There is DJGPP (by Delorie) which is GCC / G++ for DOS and comes with a nice 32-bit DPMI oriented GNU C library. So ports of text oriented tools such as dosfsck are smooth if one is a bit lucky. Depending on how far OS/2 is from DOS in the areas needed by QT, the next step of porting, from OS/2 to DOS, might be ... easier? > this is starting to sound like a mission impossible. To be honest, I think it would be far more realistic to port some e-book library for whichever formats are desired, such as EPUB and have a command line tool to open and read e-books one at a time. While Calibre sounds great for organizing your collection along with metadata search and management, it would require too much graphics and Python support. But then, you probably know that a FLTK (lightweight GUI library) port for DOS exists, which made it possible to have DOS versions of some nice apps in XFDOS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/ This includes the Dillo web browser, FLWriter, FlMail and some spreadsheet program. There also is nanolinux, which uses Nano X and FLTK to create a tiny Linux with GUI. So it is possible to do impressive ports of GUI apps to DOS. Regards, Eric PS: There also is the HX DOS extender which supports a set of basic Windows interfaces, including GUI, directly in DOS. This made it possible to run "easy" Windows apps from the DOS prompt. See also https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel :-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
