DOS ain't dead

On 07 December 2014, Ladsoft released Orange C Compiler 5.20.1.

Website: http://ladsoft.tripod.com/orange_c_compiler.html

Downloads:

* Win32 setup package
* Zipped version of compiler executables
* Source code for compiler + RTL

Changes (from RELNOTES.DOC, excluding irrelevant ocide-only stuff):

version 5.20.1:
general: use fflush() liberally throughout to speed disk access
general: fix sources to compile with OPENWATCOM & MINGW compilers
general: switch to #include <sstream> instead of #include <strstream> when
possible (e.g. except when utilizing OPENWATCOM)
occ: defining the same typedef inside of multiple functions resulted in
an error
occ: rewrite inlining code to make it work better
occ: basic support for C++ (no debugging, may have some bugs)
occ: fix problem where using debug information while specifying multiple
files on the command line would crash the compiler
occ: fix problem where browse information would take exponential time due
to excess list traversal
occ: "array[*index++] ++;" would increment 'index' twice.
occ: don't expand inline functions when generating debug code
occ: typing "int a int b;" at the beginning of a function body
wouldn't result in an error in C99/C11/C++ mode
occ: conversion of integers to pointers and vice versa in a function argument
was allowed with a warning. Now it is an error.
occ: add make dependency generation similar to gnu C
occ: fix all the bugs in the string merging algorithm
dlpe/orc/ocide: fix problems where version information wouldn't be displayed in OS file details window
occ/ocide: allow looking at variables declared in for statements (c99)
occ/ocide: allow looking at variables declared in 'static' functions
occ/ocide: improve debugging of control statements
olink/ocide: fix debug type information
ogrep: when the -d option was used with an explicit filename, ogrep would complain 'file not found' in any directory that didn't have the file
orc: allow specifying extended font parameters on the DIALOGEX FONT line
orc: allow path specifications in file names
oasm: __db was considered same as 'db' and so forth...
omake: add support for common TREE builds
clib: fix _beginthreadex to return the thread id properly
clibs: add a #define for the more or less standard variable 'environ'
clibs: add a bunch of C++ templates and support functions
clibs: no longer distributing lscrtl.dll
examples: fix xmlview example

> On 07 December 2014 Ladsoft released Orange C Compiler 5.20.1

COOL (forgot to update page title)

CC386 is not updated. ???

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

> > On 07 December 2014 Ladsoft released Orange C Compiler 5.20.1
>
> COOL (forgot to update page title)

And forgot to test under DOS. Can't find FindFirstFileExA .

> And forgot to test under DOS. Can't find FindFirstFileExA .

I discovered that this is intentional (but definitely confusing). You have to unzip ADDON\HX.ZIP first and use that instead of "stock" HX. Apparently Ladsoft (very weakly) patched it, probably to be compatible with whatever is compiling his compiler!

So it does still work in DOS, which is good.

> I discovered that this is intentional (but definitely confusing). You have
> to unzip ADDON\HX.ZIP first and use that instead of "stock" HX. Apparently
> Ladsoft (very weakly) patched it, probably to be compatible with whatever
> is compiling his compiler!

YES ... date is 2013-05-05 (almost 2 years ago)


; this is very rudimentary, maps directly into FindFirstFileA
; the only thing that really makes a difference is case sensitivity
; but I'm just ignoring it for the purpose of this fix - DAL
FindFirstFileExA proc public uses esi edi ebx pFileSpec:ptr BYTE, infoLevel:DWORD, fbuf:ptr WIN32_FIND_DATAA, searchOp:DWORD, pSrchFilter:ptr BYTE, flags:DWORD
   
    invoke FindFirstFileA, pFileSpec, fbuf
    ret
        align 4

FindFirstFileExA endp


The bad thing is that Japheth didn't release up-to-date source code, so this is a patch over potentially outdated "official" source.

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***