Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread john s wolter
Eric, I'll review the threads to see what might work. I guess based on you comments I should try FreeDOS and see what happens. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi John, > > if you have Clipper-compiled sources, you can indeed > try to compile them again with the free Harb

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, if you have Clipper-compiled sources, you can indeed try to compile them again with the free Harbour clone, as you already mentioned. There is also a wikipedia article for those who are new to the topic. As far as I remember, FreeDOS 1.0 came with a version of this, but it was quite big

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread john s wolter
Jean, Thank you for your quick response. I to have worked with FoxPro for DOS and still have more that one license. I'll pull that package out to see what I might do with it. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jean MAURICE wrote: > Hi John, > > I am a Fox developper for ... a long time. And may b

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread Jean MAURICE
Hi John, I am a Fox developper for ... a long time. And may be that Fox Dos can help you. If you are interested, you can ask your question on the Profox mailing list that you will find at www.leafe.com I am very happy to discover that I am not alone with old dbf files on DOS !!! Best regard

[Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread john s wolter
I'm looking for remarks about porting and running a Clipper compiled dBase(.dbf files) application on FreeDOS. I've used some index add-on libraries which may be an issue in FreeDOS. I have little source code for the libraries. They and Clipper were created using Microsoft C 5.1 of long ago. I

Re: [Freedos-user] DJGPP / gcc crash

2012-08-30 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello Rugxulo, Thank you very much for your expert reply. I have some quite extensive experience with GCC on linux, but actually never tried to use the monster on FreeDOS. I see that DJGPP is not as much user friendly as the gcc I'm used to. > set DJGPP=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env This was exactly th

Re: [Freedos-user] DJGPP / gcc crash

2012-08-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I installed recently the FreeDOS 1.1 distro on a VirtualBox machine, Which version of VirtualBox? (Latest stable is 4.1.20.) Was VT-X enabled? What host OS (Windows?) ? > installed the latest DJGPP, and tried to run gcc from there...

[Freedos-user] DJGPP / gcc crash

2012-08-30 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello, I installed recently the FreeDOS 1.1 distro on a VirtualBox machine, installed the latest DJGPP, and tried to run gcc from there... Unfortunately, all I got is this: C:\DJGPP\BIN>gcc Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV Page fault at eip=00041381, error=0004 eax= ebx=0016bba0 ecx=00