Hi, On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:16 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I am thinking about using FreePascal to write programs for DOS. > > Writing an "hello world" program in FreePascal for 32 bit DOS (Go32) is easy, > because the fpc package can be installed > with fdimples from the Live installer. > > But there is no 16 bit FreePascal directly for DOS. > So one have to used some other OS like Windows or Linux, and use a FreePascal > cross-compiler to 80186 16 bit DOS.
If you unpack / install the Windows version (ppcross8086), you can then use it with HX DOS extender (so both DOS host and target): * https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HX/releases > I say 80186, because this is the precompiled version, you would have to > compile your own cross-compiler for like 386 16 bit DOS. > And now I am realizing that 80186 is kind of too advanced for FreeDos that > prefer 8086... but I think the older > FreePascal can do is 80186. Like you later mentioned, it does also support 8086 (and 286, 386 ... not sure how "improved" those are, though). > Rather than using fpc to compile a .pas file, you use: ppcross8086 > as describe in: > https://wiki.freepascal.org/DOS > which is not too clear, that's why I am writing this. The Wiki is a bit outdated (esp. now that it's not only a snapshot but an official release). But generally you use a (separate) cross compiler for anything other than 386 (i.e. ppc386). Even the 64-bit compiler (ppcx64) is a cross compiler, IIRC. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
