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OpenWatcom version 1.7 available | anyone tested it ? (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 02.09.2007, 23:54
(edited by Rugxulo on 03.09.2007, 00:09)

> If you need to write large assembly snippets, it's better to write
> separate .S files for GAS or just use NASM. ;-)
Or Yasm or FASM (duh). Or, better yet, just use __dpmi_int() for real mode stuff and int86() otherwise (I think??).

> 1) Try the DJGPP Zip
> File Picker.
> 2) You need "v2/djdev203.zip", "v2gnu/bnu217b.zip", "v2gnu/gcc421b.zip".
> That's less than 10 MiB. (Older versions are usually smaller.)
Even from that, you can delete a lot of stuff and still get what you want. (There used to be EZ-GCC for DJv1, but that's > 10 years ago, so I've never tried it, not recommended b/c age ... v2 is much much better).

I've actually wanted for a while to make a stripped down DJGPP download (preferably UHarc'd or maybe LPAQ1'd or even 7-ZIP'd) without .INF or .VER / .MFT or weird utils like OBJDUMP / READELF (or whatever those dumb things are called) that you don't need for compiling. But last I checked, it didn't fit (UHarc'd, unUPX'd in order to improve compression) on one 1.44 MB floppy anymore, and I'm hesitant to use an older DJDEV (e.g. 2.01) b/c bugs. I'm sure there's a way, though ("where there's a will ..."). :-D

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