On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Tijl Coosemans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sunday 22 March 2009 04:00:16 Austin English wrote: >> > Wine supports 16 bit apps, just not as well as 32-bit. Dan had an >> > intern work on a 16 bit test suite >> > (http://code.google.com/p/win16test/), which can be used to test 16 >> > bit support, fwiw. >> >> Yes, this is what I meant to refer to. AFAIK this test suite isn't part >> of Wine because it needs Open Watcom. Now it seems gcc could be used >> (perhaps with some help from winegcc). >> There's more at http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/i386_002d16bit.html >> >> > > What is wrong with OpenWatcom? It is an open source development toolchain, > with experimental linux binaries, yes, but they do work the last time I > checked (which was when 1.8 release came out). > > >
It's not widely available, it's license is not open enough for many distros (ArchLinux has it available, and there's an initial Gentoo ebuild according to their wiki), but Fedora/Suse/Ubuntu don't have it available. It's also not known how well it works under Linux. There was talk about detecting if a user has it installed, then compiling 16 bit code in that case, but no one's worked to see if OpenWatcom works when ran/installed natively. -- -Austin
