Re: [Freedos-devel] Watcom COM format directive

2018-07-11 Thread TK Chia
Hello Rugxulo, This is interesting --- thanks! For my part, I found that `wcl' with `-l=com' does indeed work on my machine. Apparently `wcl -l=com' will actually pass `system com' (instead of `format dos com') to `wlink'. I am not sure how `format dos com' works (if it is supposed to work

Re: [Freedos-devel] Watcom COM format directive

2018-07-11 Thread Tom Ehlert
> I'm trying to link a program as a COM executable, but when I add the > "format DOS COM" directive to the linker, it complains that libraries > aren't available (such as clibs.lib). It works fine and produces an EXE > if I leave out this directive. What's really happening? just don't use .COM f

Re: [Freedos-devel] Watcom COM format directive

2018-07-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 6:29 AM David McMackins wrote: > I'm trying to link a program as a COM executable, but when I add the > "format DOS COM" directive to the linker, it complains that libraries > aren't available (such as clibs.lib). It works fine and produces an EXE > if I leave out this

[Freedos-devel] Watcom COM format directive

2018-07-11 Thread David McMackins
I'm trying to link a program as a COM executable, but when I add the "format DOS COM" directive to the linker, it complains that libraries aren't available (such as clibs.lib). It works fine and produces an EXE if I leave out this directive. What's really happening? Happy Hacking, David E. McMack