Hallo Herr Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel, am Dienstag, 30. April 2024 um 17:07 schrieben Sie:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: >> Sadly not. Only the binaries are released under MIT through the repository. >> >>> Does that mean we finally have a genuinely open sourced OMF linker? >>> >>> -hpa > It's my opinion that including them was more of a fortuitous accident than > actual intent. I'd _like_ to try to migrate as much as possible away from > them and onto something like OpenWatcom 1.9, but it's proving to be a pain in > the neck. Ideally, I'd like to organize the source a little better too so > that there isn't a lot of stuff being compiled and assembled in the INC > folder. > I started bashing on a copy of the tree, and I started to get stuff rolled in > Watcom, but mainly ran into trouble over parse(), sysloadmsg() and > sysdispmsg(), which are ASM and mostly call into deep, dark, officially > undocumented parts of DOS and could probably be replaced, if I could figure > out what they were doing in the first place... > No luck doing the same with the kernel or any of the other ASM stuff. > Watcom's MASM emulation isn't 5.1-tier. I have no idea why I would recompile old MS stuff, but as a hobby it's ok. JWASM is supposed to be better MASM compatible; at least Japteth changed some things as he had problems with "WASM not compatible enough". Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
