Subject: Re: [Summary] Re: Can I use gcc to develop MS-DOS apps ? From: system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:36:22 PDT
davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
> In article <1992Oct08.100755.14699@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, wolff@zen.et.tudelft
>
> | I'd suggest to make, compile and _RUN_ the application under Linux.
> | What makes the application have to run under DOS? (its text based)
> | Since you't be compiling using gcc in both cases, you'd be pretty
> | confident that the final version will prove to compile cleanly
> | under DOS.
>
> djgcc allows mapping the screen into user memory and that makes graphics
> stuff really easy to write, so the original poster might have that in
> mind. Of course if someone wanted to do the world a great service they
> could port djgcc to linux and let us all cross compile. Or if someone
> got in touch with DJ he might be interested in running Linux and do it
> himself.
>
> I've resigned myself to running SCO on one system on the net to use from
> cross compile to ODS and OS/2.
> --
> bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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It is possible to cross compile from the existing GCC simply build it
configured for go32. then you need the 1.94 binutils so that you can
make a cross linker. Nothing to it. Who wants to port the 1.94
binutils.
Scott
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