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Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) (Miscellaneous)

posted by bocke, 01.03.2012, 01:01

This PCC seems to be ancesstor to modern PCC:
http://bsdfund.org/projects/pcc/

I did try compiling it while playing with ELKS. I did manage to compile some of the toolchain (as and ld I think) with bcc but it required some tweaking.

Anyway, porting the modern *BSD pcc would be much smarter thing to do. But I don't see that happening soon. DOS community is really small these days. You can see some activity centered around FreeDOS and DJGPP. Other than that, I think this forum is the most active DOS community ATM (that remind how it almost got shut down ).

Talking about ancient K&R C compilers, there's already bcc. Desmet C is now under GPL too. And you can even download Aztec C 8086 compiler (half) legally. But I don't see the purpose for that. Maybe only as a tiny development environment for 8086/186 based PC with limited memory and hd space (or without hdd)...

Complete thread:

• Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 08.01.2012, 03:54 (Miscellaneous)
  • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 01.03.2012, 01:01
    • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 06:58
      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 07:26
        • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 01.03.2012, 21:33
          • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 21:48
            • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 03.03.2012, 23:43
              • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 04.03.2012, 03:34
                • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 05.03.2012, 20:14
                  • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 05.03.2012, 20:56
                    • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 06.03.2012, 03:51
                      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 06.03.2012, 04:14
                        • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - Rugxulo, 07.03.2012, 01:38
                          • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - bocke, 10.03.2012, 08:29
                            • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - Rugxulo, 10.03.2012, 18:51
                              • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - bocke, 19.03.2012, 02:17
                                • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - Rugxulo, 19.03.2012, 19:00
                      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 06.03.2012, 06:26
                        • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - roytam, 06.03.2012, 12:36
                          • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 10.03.2012, 08:17
          • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 22.03.2012, 00:58
            • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 22.03.2012, 08:38
              • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 22.03.2012, 18:17
                • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 22.03.2012, 20:34
                  • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 23.03.2012, 07:06
                    • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 27.03.2012, 20:28
                      • Old 8086 version/Venksi's self-assembling assembler+runcom - Arjay, 27.03.2012, 21:35
      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 01.03.2012, 19:23
        • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 21:36