Bernd Blaauw wrote:
The only real source files that would need to be modified are msgs.h (obviously, for the languages) and config.h, which gets overwritten by the ./configure script.
OpenWatcom, I suppose, otherwise it won't work on 8086 (MS EDLIN is older than MS EDIT).What compiler and what language for the edlin-2.2 binary?
I'll search for some clear instructions in your source package.
Otherwise, please instruct me, i'm pretty new to compiling stuff and only a thing like the kernel is very automated.
BTW, my reference compiler is gcc/cygwin, but I also use MS Visual C/C++ and OpenWatcom. OpenWatcom and gcc/cygwin are free, and the traditional ./configure;make;make install works nicely with gcc/cygwin. ;-)
gcc/cygwin is the same as MSYS / MINGW ?
confusing, all those compilers, linkers, languages and platforms.
Bernd
They're similar (both ports of gcc). I don't know if the ./configure script can detect mingw, but it should be able to.
Cygwin is a port of the gcc/bash environment that runs under Windows using a DLL emulator. It's useful for porting Unix/Linux programs to Windows.
Anyway, under cygwin, what the ./configure script does is produce a config.h file with various #defines #defined and a Makefile from Makefile.in. The make program compiles and builds everything and then make install puts the executable into /usr/local/bin. The Makefile has a few other neat targets in it such as distdir (makes a distribution directory), dist (makes a distribution tarball edlin-2.2.tar.gz), and others. I use "make dist" to throw a distro together. Isn't automation fun?
BTW, I left in the .tgt files for OpenWatcom, so compiling with that shouldn't be hard.
Gregory Pietsch
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