DOS ain't dead

Tcl 9.0.0 compiled for DOS (Announce)

posted by bencollver , 09.10.2024, 01:14

Here's Tcl 9.0.0 built with DJGPP (tcl90r1.zip). Includes Sqlite 3.46.1.

https://archive.org/details/tcl-9.0.0-for-dos

https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/files/dos386/devel/tcl/

For details on new commands, options, TclOO facilities, and number handling, see:

https://www.tcl-lang.com/software/tcltk/9.0.html

The new major features in Tcl 9.0 generally don't apply to DOS.

* 64-bit capacity (DJGPP is 32-bit)
* Full range of Unicode codepoints (DJGPP isn't really Unicode-aware)
* Zipfs is disabled (mmap not available on DOS)
* Unix notifiers falling back to select (epoll()/kqueue() not available on DOS)

I dropped the Ck extension. A patch is included to build it with Tcl 9.0.0, but it crashes during initialization and i lacked the patience to debug it.

Complete thread:

• Tcl 9.0.0 compiled for DOS - bencollver, 09.10.2024, 01:14 (Announce)
  • Tcl 9.0.0 compiled for DOS - Laaca, 09.10.2024, 18:14
    • Tcl 9.0.0 compiled for DOS - bencollver, 09.10.2024, 22:33