Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:24:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: boot disk.... Message-ID: <199510300824.JAA04933@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510300635.RAA01084@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 30, 95 05:05:19 pm
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As Michael Smith wrote: > > > fbsdboot should _be_ a DOS program and be built as a FreeBSD program. > > Then it would be easier to add extensions to it. > > If you have any magic techniqes for converting a FreeBSD binary into DOS > EXE format, I'm keen 8) I currently use the GNU toolchain and the DJGPP > libraries as a cross-development platform for much of our DOS work. bcc (``Bruce's C compiler'', it's in the packages) can compile 16-bit code. With a bit trickery, it's possible to build a .COM file from it (but no .EXE). Look into the pcemu port collection to see how i did it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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