At 04:51 PM 7/22/2011, Jim Hall wrote:
>I am updating the 'devel' side of the FreeDOS software list, and
>cannot find any DOS binaries for xHarbour. Can anyone help me? I also
>need corresponding source code.
>
>The upstream web site no longer points to DOS binaries:
>http://www.xharbour.org/index.asp?page=download/dos/binaries_dos
>
>The old version that we included in the FreeDOS 1.0 distribution seems
>to have incomplete sources.
>
>xHarbour is a database compiler based on xBASE and is 99% compatible
>with MicroSoft Clipper. Is there still a need for this?

xHarbour has abandoned DOS as a target system long time ago, not sure 
if the current sources still compile with a DOS targeted C compiler.
Harbour (from which xHarbour split a few years ago) announced a 3.0 
release a week ago, but the latest available DOS binaries are still 
v1.01 from 2008-09-17 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/harbour-project/files/binaries-dos/)
The current 3.0 sources have a dos-make.exe file in the archive, 
don't know if that is actually working in DOS and with which 
compiler(s), when I was looking for a free available Clipper/xBase 
compiler to transfer an old DOS program to work in a newer Windows 
environment, I used the 3.0 Windows executable, which actually 
compiled and ran the +20 year old Clipper code in less than an hour...

And btw, there is/never was no such thing as "Microsoft Clipper", the 
original Clipper compiler was developed by Nantucket until sold in 
the late '90s to CA (Computer Associates) which in turned dumped it 
off a small outfit that then subsequently disappeared.
Microsoft had at some point bought a xBase product called 
FoxBase/FoxPro, which then evolved into Visual FoxPro until it was 
announced recently that VFP 9.0 (released 2007) will be the last 
incarnation and they are dumping the product as they don't want to go 
through a rewrite to make it 64bit to fit in their Windows 8 and 
beyond roadmap...

Is there still a need for this? Well, as you folks all are abandoning 
DOS more or less, probably not... :-(

Ralf 


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