From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 13 15:57:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA05927 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:57:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05910 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:56:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA04762; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:35:29 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603140005.KAA04762@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ibcs2 and microsoft a.out's To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:35:29 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603131509.JAA01661@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Mar 13, 96 09:09:14 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Eric L. Hernes stands accused of saying: > > > anyone have an idea of how go about getting this sucker to run? > it's the microsoft assembler from an sco box, if this and it's type > run I can create dos binaries on FBSD. > > (ttyp0@jake)$ file /compat/ibcs2/bin/masm > /compat/ibcs2/bin/masm: Microsoft a.out separate pure segmented word-swapped > V2.3 V3.0 86 small model executable Large Text Errr. 'small model' means it's a 286 binary, not much chance of running that I suspect. Do you have to use MASM? You can build a cross-gcc toolchain for i386-go32 and build 386 DOS binaries with that; we do that here and it works just fine. As a bonus your DOS executables get a 32-bit flat address space and virtual memory 8) > eric. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[