Hmmm, Possibly, BUT the resultant code would still have to be brought back to FreeDOS on virtual or real floppy. Might as well develop in a VM under FreeDOS.
OpenWatcom, like I mentioned earlier was too much for me, so I went back to my Borland tools and add defines to cover the bases. -T > On Sep 27, 2015, at 9:45 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 27, 2015, Antony Gordon <cuzint...@gmail.com > <mailto:cuzint...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > Unfortunately, Linux doesn’t have a 16-bit C compiler (that I am aware of). > GCC has some fundamental differences in C dialect from OpenWatcom and Borland > which would require conditional defines (especially with regard to inline > assembly) and GCC doesn’t support 16-bit OBJ files as a target, mostly COFF > and ELF binaries which will not work on DOS (at least at the 8/16-bit level). > > Can't openwatcom on Linux generate 16-bit dos binaries? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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