Hi, On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 12:50 PM Aitor Santamaría <aitor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven't been following much of what happens with the different assemblers > these days, but my idea is > that the same thing as with C or Pascal happens: as much as TASM or MASM are > nice products, there > are hardly open source actively maintained products that are compatible with > them, and hence > NASM can be an alternative. > > I may be wrong but leaving aside smaller pet problems and trying to go for > broader products most widely > used even by the FreeDOS community: > > - Assembler - there is NASM, not compatible with MASM/WASM. I guess there is > still (J)WASM as > alternative, as I assume that MASM/TASM haven't been neither open sourced nor > actively maintained.
Strictly speaking, OpenWatcom is "Open Source" (OSI) but not "Free software". Its WASM (and WASMR [real mode]) do have "partial" Ideal mode support via "-zcm=tasm". I believe this is mostly for the extended struct syntax (which I'm not familiar with). > - C: the only option seems to be OWC for 16-bit and with a good amount of > libraries. Apparently there's > a community maintained what is called OWC 2.0 as the original project seems > to be gone. If they close, > I don't know of an alternative 16-bit active open source C compiler. DeSmet C and IA16-ELF (GCC) both work fairly well (but not necessarily every memory model). * http://desmet-c.com/ * https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16/releases > - Pascal: I admit I haven't tried FPC/16-bit yet, and see if I can happen to > compile KEYB. I am afraid it'll be hard > because the resident part of KEYB has a lot of assembler. TP/BP are now > unmaintained (and not open sourced). > Similarly, if they close, we don't have an alternative 16-bit active open > source Pascal compiler. * https://wiki.freepascal.org/DOS * https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/msdos/3.2.2/ I can send you my local copy (or show you how to get it) of the 3.2.2 cross-compiler (i8086-msdos) that works under latest HX pre-releases. It has a built-in assembler and linker. It supports all memory models. > What a sad panorama :) Honestly, if DJGPP (32-bit DPMI) isn't good enough for some projects, it's unlikely that they'll bother supporting 16-bit either. (We did finally get builds for GCC 12. Anyone learn C++17 [default] yet??) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
