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Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 17.04.2012, 02:18

I did a very rough, preliminary cross-compile (using Ozkan's GCC 3.4.6 Linux to DJGPP cross-compiler build) of Dev86 0.16.18, and it appears to work (though a few utils didn't build and I didn't bother investigating as they weren't directly needed for compiling, e.g. nm86, size86, dis86). I haven't barely tested it, but it should work okay, or at least as good (or better??) than the older 16-bit DOS-hosted version of 0.16.2 on iBiblio. In particular, hopefully this one fixes some bugs and adds some stuff (e.g. unproto.exe and copt.exe without weird bugs), but I would appreciate anybody kicking the tires a bit more.

The main problem is that it's clearly very Linux-oriented build process, which I hate, but I've not had the patience to try to distill it to something more DOS-friendly just yet. So for now, hopefully this works okay, at least as good or better than the older DOS build.

A quick test shows it may not allow Linux-8086 target from DOS host (ld86 "-r" not supported?), but I don't know why. DOSELKS.COM (already on iBiblio) does mostly work, but I don't have any good examples for it. I thought I could build BWBasic, but that (even with 255-byte strings to fit in small data model) seems? to rely heavily on float FPU stuff, which Dev86 apparently lacks, so that's a bust. (And I don't think my silly B93 interpreter counts as interesting, oh well. I'm open to suggestions here.)

EDIT: Forgot to mention, for silly reasons, you can only unzip it to the root of the drive, e.g. "/dev86dj/", then you just put d:\dev86dj\bin in your %PATH% or whatever, and "bcc -v -O -ansi myfile.c -o myfile.com" should work okay.

Complete thread:

• Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - Rugxulo, 17.04.2012, 02:18 (Developers)
  • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - georgpotthast, 17.04.2012, 18:23
    • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - Rugxulo, 17.04.2012, 19:42
      • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - Rugxulo, 18.04.2012, 01:54
        • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - georgpotthast, 19.04.2012, 18:41
          • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - roytam, 21.04.2012, 13:52
            • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - georgpotthast, 21.04.2012, 16:25
              • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - Khusraw, 22.04.2012, 09:34
                • Dev86DOS 0.16.18 (DJGPP host) - Rugxulo, 22.04.2012, 18:08
                  • ACK i86/i386 output & DOS - ecm, 22.04.2012, 23:24
                    • ACK i86/i386 output & DOS - Rugxulo, 26.04.2012, 09:33
                    • ACK i86/i386 output & DOS - tkchia, 01.04.2021, 16:50
                      • ACK i86/i386 output & DOS - ecm, 01.04.2021, 17:11
  • Dev86 0.16.19 (DJGPP host) - Khusraw, 17.09.2012, 14:47
    • Dev86 0.16.19 (DJGPP host) - Rugxulo, 19.09.2012, 02:07
      • Dev86 0.16.19 (DJGPP host) - Khusraw, 19.09.2012, 09:05