DOS ain't dead - FPC 2.4.2RC1

FPC 2.4.2RC1 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 16.10.2010, 04:28

> A release candidate for the next FPC version has been published
> (unfortunately this branch went into stabilization before Nikolay's many
> Graph fixes)
>
> For Dos, atm there is no big zip, just separate zips:
>
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.4.2-rc1/i386-go32v2/separate/

I've been checking the front page occasionally every few days for a while now, so I'm surprised nothing was mentioned. Oh well.

Anyways, it seems a truly "minimal" install is this (actually, it's just what I grabbed, luckily it worked, couldn't find any more obvious install instructions):

aslddos.zip 1,031 KB 10/13/2010 12:50:00 PM basedos.zip 4,960 KB 10/13/2010 12:50:00 PM install.dat 25 KB 10/13/2010 12:51:00 PM install.exe 367 KB 10/13/2010 12:51:00 PM

Works fine for my lame-o bef93.pas file. Of course, there's only one nitpick (aside from lack of install instructions ... I mean, I have fast internet but even I can't be bothered to download 1000 srcs for something I'll never recompile):

- old tools (AR, AS, LD, OBJDUMP, STRIP 2.17; CWSDPMI r5 2008)

Normally I wouldn't care, but I know I've mentioned this before (and edited the wiki). Heck, I've even recompiled BinUtils myself, so it's not like I couldn't do so again, but I guess FPC devs don't care. (Yes, these are the same broken-UPX'd binaries as before.) Worse is that AS probably isn't needed or used anymore (except in bootstrapping??), plus 2.19 should work now (didn't you guys already fix that?).

BTW, CWSDPMI r7 has been out since the beginning of the year, and I've mentioned it on several places too. CWS' standard site ("Clio", just tried yet again, still dead) has been down for a few months even, and I made sure to mention that too (in some places, even the Wikipedia article). So you can't even get anything from Clio even if you tried! The new (temporary??) site has been "Homer" for months now. r7 is even available (and offered by default now in Zip Picker) on every DJGPP mirror. It supports 4 GB and doesn't run out of base memory for page tables on > 512 MB machines, so you don't need weird workarounds like setting a swapping dir to a RAM drive.

http://homer.rice.edu/~sandmann/

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/csdpmi7b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/csdpmi7s.zip

http://djgpp.cybermirror.org/current/v2misc/csdpmi7b.zip
http://djgpp.cybermirror.org/current/v2misc/csdpmi7s.zip

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Complete thread:

FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 15.10.2010, 23:25
- FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 16.10.2010, 04:28
  - FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 18.10.2010, 20:32
    - FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 18.10.2010, 23:36
      - FPC 2.4.2RC1 -- DJGPP Binutils - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 09:46
        GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 14:27
        GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 22:33
        GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 22:57
        GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 00:35
        GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 20.10.2010, 00:40
        GPL source hosting requirement - marcov, 20.10.2010, 09:47
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 15:47
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 16:36
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 22.10.2010, 05:14
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - DOS386, 23.10.2010, 09:21
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.10.2010, 10:16
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:15
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 15:05
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:23
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:29
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 25.11.2010, 11:55
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 25.12.2010, 12:39
        AdvanceZip / BinUtils / CMT Solitaire / DOS DEATH / LZMA - DOS386, 26.12.2010, 08:04
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 00:40
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 05:47
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 13:02
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 14:03
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Laaca, 01.01.2011, 15:12
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 16:56
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 17:46
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 03.01.2011, 09:44
        BUG - DOS386, 08.03.2011, 14:37
        BUG - FPC 2.5.1 snapshot - Rugxulo, 08.03.2011, 22:40
        BUG - Japheth, 10.03.2011, 12:17
        BUG - Laaca, 10.03.2011, 12:31
        BUG - DOS386, 03.05.2011, 09:48
      - UPX-UCL 3.07 - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 03:44
      - FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 04.11.2010, 09:49
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 08.11.2010, 22:27
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 10.11.2010, 20:38
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Laaca, 11.11.2010, 00:06
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2010, 04:03
        FPC 2.4.2 (final) released - Rugxulo, 14.11.2010, 20:11
        "for .. in" - Rugxulo, 24.11.2010, 01:08
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 15.11.2010, 22:36
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:13
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Laaca, 19.11.2010, 11:10
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 14:52
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 13:00
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 14:43
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:21
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 16:08
        CWSDPMI r7 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:03