Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-11 Thread David O'Shea
From: tom ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] if you want more features, make it compliable with watcom I think I would find this an interesting project but I should wait until MEM is done :) From: Bernd Blaauw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I think Jeremy's descript.ion support has to be inserted

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-11 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Guess I should read up about what the difference is between these large/normal/small models. In short: tiny: one segment for everything, CS = DS = SS, data pointers are near, function pointers are near (everything must fit in in 64 KB, no segment reserved for stack

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-10 Thread tom ehlert
Hello David, FreeCom only compiles in small model (see below). I'm pretty sure I got everything to compile in large model even if you can compile it in large model, XMS-SWAP will DEFINITIVELY not work, no matter how much work you put into it. it's in the concept, not the actual implementation

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
regarding the descript.ion thing not working, are you sure it was compiled in or was that why you were building? (not sure why you were trying to build in large model though, see Tom's remarks, basically not going to work, even if you manage to get an executable) ... I think Jeremy's

[Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Alain
Hi, I am just starting to prepare for compiling FreeCOM. should I stick to docs\compile.txt or is there any other explanation? Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alain wrote: Hi, I am just starting to prepare for compiling FreeCOM. should I stick to docs\compile.txt or is there any other explanation? Alain It should be fine. If you build on Windows be sure to use the win version of nasm, and every so often the build may fail in the middle (I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Jeremy, Thanks for improving kernel, last time I use an old kernel (Jul) so have COPY CON blah.txt (CTRL-Z) problem, but this seems OK in (Oct) build. Can you announce here when some major update was made? Sorry for additional workload ... Thanks. Rgds, Johnson.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Johnson Lam schreef: Hi Jeremy, Thanks for improving kernel, last time I use an old kernel (Jul) so have COPY CON blah.txt (CTRL-Z) problem, but this seems OK in (Oct) build. That wasn't Jeremy, see the commit details from 2005-10-22

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Alain
Hy Jeremy, I am just starting to prepare for compiling FreeCOM. should I stick to docs\compile.txt or is there any other explanation? It should be fine. It is in fact very outdated :( If you build on Windows be sure to use the win version of nasm, I am using DOSEMU with FreeDOS, so I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Alain
More problems: I managed to start compiling but one of the first files utils\mkinfres.c has this command: #include fmemory.h I could find this file in SUPPL, but it I am usinf a SUPPL\SKIP file, I don't have SUPPL... What sould I do? If I use SUPPL, would I get a bigger FreeCOM? I will

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Alain schreef: What sould I do? If I use SUPPL, would I get a bigger FreeCOM? I will stop trying until I understand what to do... Suppl is required somehow, but you have the choice of compiling it each time again, or use a precompiled version (which the file SKIP is for). Good luck trying to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Alain
Bernd Blaauw escreveu: What sould I do? If I use SUPPL, would I get a bigger FreeCOM? I will stop trying until I understand what to do... Suppl is required somehow, but you have the choice of compiling it each time again, or use a precompiled version (which the file SKIP is for). That is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
maybe I was not clear, a mini suppl library is now included so you do not have to do anything regarding it. Do not create the skip file, do not try to download it, just ignore any mention of it existing. (The docs still explain it because you can still use the full suppl library and everything

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Alain
Hi Jeremy, the easy part is a theory, just that. I am working on it for 9 hours now and it just does not work. Error is bellow maybe I was not clear, a mini suppl library is now included I figured that out. Not the easy way. so you do not have to do anything regarding it. Do not create

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Alain
Thanks, now I can compile FreeCOM Tomorow I will try to figure how to localize it ;-) Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a