retitle 144042 ITP: freedos -- complete, free, MSDOS compatible operating system thanks
> Problems packaging FreeDOS are: > 1. That the build system is DOS-oriented, and it would need either heavy > modification of the Makefiles or (preferably IMO) to be built inside > a DOS emulator like DOSEMU. > 2. FreeDOS is built with nonfree C compilers in upstream. > As explained by Pat Villani, GCC is unable to build the FreeDOS kernel: > "The GNU C compiler currently don't support real mode (16-bit) X86 > code generation. In addition, it will not run on a PC using MS-DOS in > real mode. This defeats the purpose of FreeDOS, so there are no plans > to port the compiler at this time." (see > http://www.freedos.org/faq/cgi-bin/fom-serve/cache/30.html) Maybe bcc > can be used to build the kernel instead. This looks really nasty, but I'll see what I can do. -- Kind regards, +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | Si l'on sait exactement ce | |--------------------------------| que l'on va faire, a quoi | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | bon le faire? | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pablo Picasso | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]