From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 06:24:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA08863 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA08853 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA25025; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:13:22 +0200 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:13:21 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ibcs2 and microsoft a.out's In-Reply-To: <199603140005.KAA04762@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :) On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > 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) > And the same thing under Windows 3.1 / 3.11 - there is an extender that runs under windows and allows you to write windows programs with gcc > > 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 [[ > Sander