*Resending as I think my other email this weekend was lost due to the SF email list servers issue:
This didn't get any discussion a month ago. Since it didn't appear in T2405, I wanted to raise it again for T2406. Can we add this to T2406? Adding a DJGPP.ENV file is all you need to compile programs with IA-16 GCC without installing the full DJGPP environment. To make it easier to add to the distribution, I've created a 427-byte zip file that contains DJGPP.ENV and SETENV.BAT; if you unzip this at the root dir, then both get installed to \devel\i16gcc. I've copied the zip file to the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio, here: https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/gcc-ia16/ I16ENV.ZIP The I16ENV.TXT file is just a brief Readme about it. On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 10:52 AM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > Based on my other email about getting IA-16 GCC to work on T2404 > without installing DJGPP, I propose adding a new package in T2405 > called I16ENV that just has two files in it: > > /devel/i16gnu/djgpp.env > /devel/i16gnu/setenv.bat > > The DJGPP.ENV file contains just: > > DJDIR= > > And the SETENV.BAT file sets the PATH and points the DJGPP environment > variable to the DJGPP.ENV file, like this: > > @ECHO OFF > PATH %PATH%;C:\DEVEL\I16GNU\BIN > SET DJGPP=C:\DEVEL\I16GNU\DJGPP.ENV > > > Since it gets installed in the IA-16 GCC directory, it shouldn't get > confused with the DJGPP stuff. If the DJGPP env file is called > DJGPP.ENV, it will make more sense when people find references to > "DJGPP.ENV" in other documentation. And because the package will be > named similarly to the other IA-16 GCC packages, users will be more > likely to install it when they install IA-16 GCC. But because we > aren't updating any original IA-16 GCC packages, it keeps things clean > at the expense of a little extra "overhead" for the package. But if > you're installing a C compiler, you likely can spare the tiny extra > space. > > This will be a good way for others to start testing compiling programs > using IA-16 GCC in a working default configuration on a fresh install, > starting with the next test release. > > This works on my T2404 installation. Here is a copy/paste of my > FreeDOS session after a fresh reboot (using unmodified FDAUTO.BAT): > > C:\DEVEL>dir /b > I16GNU > WATCOMC > > C:\DEVEL>cd i16gnu > > C:\DEVEL\I16GNU>dir /b > BIN > IA16-ELF > LIB > LIBEXEC > SHARE > DJGPP.ENV > SETENV.BAT > > C:\DEVEL\I16GNU>type setenv.bat > @ECHO OFF > PATH %PATH%;C:\DEVEL\I16GNU\BIN > SET DJGPP=C:\DEVEL\I16GNU\DJGPP.ENV > > C:\DEVEL\I16GNU>type DJGPP.ENV > DJDIR= > > C:\DEVEL\I16GNU>setenv.bat > > .. now I'll switch to the D: drive to compile a program .. > > D:\SRC>dir /b hello.* > HELLO.C > > D:\SRC>type hello.c > #include <stdio.h> > int main() > { > puts("Hello world"); > return 0; > } > > D:\SRC>i16gcc -Wall -o hello.exe hello.c > > D:\SRC>dir /b hello.* > HELLO.C > HELLO.EXE > > D:\SRC>hello.exe > Hello world _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
