Hi, I did a build of OW 2.0 (it was rebranded) but nothing else was changed at this point. It turns out the best way to build it was on Windows. I tried Linux and failed and the path was too deep for MS-DOS to be used for building.
> On Jan 18, 2018, at 1:18 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:11 PM, Antony Gordon <cuzint...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> AFAIK no one on this project is interested in building a C compiler from >> scratch for >> the purposes of developing FreeDOS. > > Nobody's directly working on such, AFAIK, unless you count SmallerC > (which is not DOS nor FreeDOS exclusive but does partially support > it). > >> DJGPP can’t reliably generate code for all the DOS modes which rules it out, >> MSC and the Borland compilers. > > FreePascal's i8086-msdos can target all models, but that's TP and > Delphi, not ISO C nor POSIX. > >> The only 2 compilers that could possibly be customized would be Bruce’s C >> compiler >> which I hear is missing some things and OpenWatcom. > > DeSmet C or SmallerC both work, but they don't support all models. And > the latter is always 386+ (which isn't that big a deal at this late > date). > > Actually, I think SmallerC is quite good, and I still want to make an > official package one of these days. > >> I guess it was/is a stupid idea anyway so there’s no real need to discuss it >> further. > > The idea to have a slim or DOS-only build isn't stupid. But I guess > most people don't have the motivation. I find it vaguely interesting, > but even I would be overwhelmed trying to rebuild OpenWatcom. I still > haven't tried the latest 2.0-pre builds: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/openwatcom/files/open-watcom-2.0-2017-11-01/ > > ("open-watcom-2_0-c-dos.exe" is 107.7 MB, presumably .ZIP sfx compressed > again.) > > IIRC, the full OW 1.9 DOS install (only for DOS targets) was "only" > like 45 MB or so. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
