Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDNPKG 16 bit port and other package system improvements
Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, sparky4 insano wrote: > > I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg! > but it is quite difficult to port it over These are just .ZIPs with a special layout, so it's not like you can't manually install them. Besides, most DOS programs don't have lots of dependencies, so it's much less critical. > I also wish the developers of Free Open Source Software for DOS would at > least make a FreeDOS package of their stuff and put it in the repository!! Such as what exactly? If you have a specific request or two, feel free to ask (but don't get your hopes up, most people are too busy or indifferent, sadly). I'm the worst at focusing on a specific task, but admittedly, you can't do everything at once, you have to narrow your view for a bit, just to keep things simpler and manageable. So it's unlikely that "everything" (BASE, NET, UTIL) will all be updated at once. But little by little > Speaking of which i want to update a bunch of the packages in the > repository! Talk to Mateusz. Or tell me specifically which ones are outdated and need replacing, and I'll update them on iBiblio for you / us. Anybody else wanting to directly help should probably email Jim Hall privately. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ (Just for example, /devel/djgpp-obj.zip is ObjC, but it's GCC 4.7.1, after their transition to using G++, and honestly I don't think it works at all. But I chickened out and didn't email Mateusz recently. Maybe now's a good time to mention it, but I don't really know ObjC, and the examples I tested were minimal. Andris of DJGPP didn't seem to know either.) > also DOSFSCK for DOS port is quite outdated... > > Just to let you know... Dunno, in the few times I used it, it worked okay. What specifically does it not do? What is latest / better? -- Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDNPKG 16 bit port and other package system improvements
Hi, > I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg! > but it is quite difficult to port it over I have tried porting an older version of FDNPKG to Open Watcom in the past. My changes became obsolete once a newer one (0.95, I think) was released, so I deleted them. (Modifying the makefile was quite simple, by the way.) The biggest problem, I think, was that FDNPKG assumes 32-bit ints and "#define int long" obviously wouldn't work because some #included headers (for example Open Watcom's stdio.h) declare variables as "long int", which would then become "long long" and mess everything up. Mateusz also wasn't very enthusiastic about it - he told me that FDNPKG relies quite heavily on having a large non-segmented address space (probably for ZIP decompression) and that porting it to real mode would make the code a mess. So, to update FreeDOS installations on your pre-80386 machines, you can use my own FreeDOS offline updater - http://matejhorvat.si/en/freedos/fdoffupd/ - it's a bit of a kludge, but it's better than having to download all the updates manually. Matej Horvat http://matejhorvat.si/ -- Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDNPKG 16 bit port and other package system improvements
I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg! but it is quite difficult to port it over I also wish the developers of Free Open Source Software for DOS would at least make a FreeDOS package of their stuff and put it in the repository!! Speaking of which i want to update a bunch of the packages in the repository! also DOSFSCK for DOS port is quite outdated... Just to let you know... with love, sparky4 Administrator of 四葉の芽◇ちゃんねる -- Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
