Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling EDIT with free software

2018-08-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > as an anecdote: in 2001, the official compiler was MSC 6.0 and MASM. > nobody cared either, and everybody used happily the (free) Turbo C 2.01 > and TCPP 1.0. IIRC, Pat V. himself wanted the kernel to be able to build with relatively ea

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling EDIT with free software

2018-08-11 Thread David McMackins
I currently have 4 projects in my queue for NEW programs for DOS. Once I finish those, I'd be happy to collaborate in translating the base system to Watcom. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundatio

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling EDIT with free software

2018-08-11 Thread Jim Hall
For at least several months, I've had this on the Contribute page: http://www.freedos.org/contribute/ - Port FreeDOS utilities to OpenWatcom C and NASM (currently our preferred C compiler and Assembler for FreeDOS) So we're trying to encourage folks to Port these programs to an open sourc

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling EDIT with free software

2018-08-11 Thread Guti
:sábado, 11 de agosto de 2018, 19:22:08 Asunto: [Freedos-devel] Compiling EDIT with free software Archivos: --===-- > While I was doing something else, I went on a tangent that led me to > look at the F

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling EDIT with free software

2018-08-11 Thread Tom Ehlert
> While I was doing something else, I went on a tangent that led me to > look at the FreeDOS EDIT source code. I noticed some problems. > The first of these problems is that it appears at first glance EDIT has > a build dependency on Borland C. At least, there isn't a build script > for any oth

[Freedos-devel] Compiling EDIT with free software

2018-08-11 Thread David McMackins
While I was doing something else, I went on a tangent that led me to look at the FreeDOS EDIT source code. I noticed some problems. The first of these problems is that it appears at first glance EDIT has a build dependency on Borland C. At least, there isn't a build script for any other compiler.