From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon May 5 19:45:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08750 for emulation-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 19:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA08745 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 19:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA05452; Tue, 6 May 1997 12:15:23 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705060245.MAA05452@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Report on DOSCMD In-Reply-To: from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at "May 5, 97 04:16:17 pm" To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni) Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 12:15:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: j_mini@efn.org, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro F. Giffuni stands accused of saying: > FWIW, you will find some DOS crosscompilers on the ports tree: bcc and > gcc-go32. I ported the latest: I don't use it, I don't care about it (I'm > the worst maintainer on that stuff and everyone seems uninterested), but > some cool things could be done with it, perhaps even testing the pgcc > patches for crosscompiling. Perhaps you could even use Watcom's libraries > with it. I doubt you could use the Watcom libraries with it, but gcc-go32 is an extremely handy tool, and I beg you to keep it up to date. It's the only free 32-bit DOS compiler around, and it provides a DOS programming environment that is extremely productive and highly conducive to rapid development and migration of *nix code. > Pedro. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[