DOS ain't dead

cl (Miscellaneous)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 22.08.2021, 12:14

> > > 1.52c works on DOS as well.
> >
> > http://bytepointer.com/msvc/index.htm
> >
> > Visual C++ 1.51 - 16-bit
> >
> > CL.EXE was a 32-bit PE applicaion
> >
> >
> > Are you saying that by 1.52C they had reverted
> > CL.EXE back to being a 16-bit MSDOS application?
> >
> > Or did they ship two versions of CL.EXE?
>
> No, it came with a DOS extender that could run it (Phar Lap GOTNT).

Ok, thanks. That's no good to me. I can run HX
as the DOS extender and run the Win32 executable.

I'm after the last version that ran on a pure
8086 CPU. What sort of trade-offs were made
trying to get CL.EXE to run on an 8086? Maybe
I actually want an earlier version of CL.EXE
before they started adding a whole lot of
features, so that I can compile bigger programs.

I only need their compiler, not their runtime
libraries.

BFN. Paul.

Complete thread:

• cl - kerravon, 20.08.2021, 18:31 (Miscellaneous)
  • cl - Rugxulo, 21.08.2021, 07:29
    • cl - kerravon, 21.08.2021, 12:23
      • cl - tom, 21.08.2021, 15:51
      • cl - Ringding, 21.08.2021, 16:42
        • cl - kerravon, 22.08.2021, 05:35
          • cl - Rugxulo, 22.08.2021, 06:24
            • cl - kerravon, 22.08.2021, 09:09
              • cl - kerravon, 22.08.2021, 09:14
                • cl - kerravon, 22.08.2021, 09:15
                  • cl - kerravon, 22.08.2021, 09:17
                    • cl - kerravon, 22.08.2021, 09:20
                      • cl - DosWorld, 20.09.2021, 05:10
                        • cl - kerravon, 27.09.2021, 03:50
                      • cl - tom, 20.09.2021, 12:18
                        • cl - kerravon, 27.09.2021, 03:46
                    • cl - kerravon, 27.09.2021, 04:14
          • cl - Ringding, 22.08.2021, 10:47
            • cl - kerravon, 22.08.2021, 12:14
  • cl - Ringding, 21.08.2021, 09:38