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cl (Miscellaneous)

posted by Ringding, 21.08.2021, 09:38

> I'm pretty sure that Microsoft C for MSDOS was called cl.exe, the same as
> Visual Studio today.
>
> At the time that kernel32.dll was created, presumably circa 1994, did
> cl.exe target both Win32 and MSDOS, or were they separate compilers?

I've never seen a combined 16/32-bit C compiler from Microsoft. I think they were always separate. But the command line switches that were transferable from one memory model to the other were mostly the same. The earliest 32-bit one that I could find easily is Visual C++ 1.0 for NT from winworldpc.

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cl - kerravon, 20.08.2021, 18:31 (Miscellaneous)
- cl - Rugxulo, 21.08.2021, 07:29
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        cl - kerravon, 27.09.2021, 03:50
        cl - tom, 20.09.2021, 12:18
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        cl - Ringding, 22.08.2021, 10:47
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- cl - Ringding, 21.08.2021, 09:38