Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-24 Thread dos386
I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project. I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like your opinion OK, see below ... I'd like to see gcc for all 32- and 64-bit development What's the design goal ??? it really needs to be

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-23 Thread Christian Masloch
Now, I will have to disclose that I have not tried jwasm. There's no reason behind that except for laziness. Having learned nasm and finding it met my needs, I just didn't try jwasm because I didn't want to learn it. So, I cannot compare nasm to it. I can't really compare NASM to it

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Walt Nagel
...@freedos.org wrote: From: Pat Villani p...@freedos.org Subject: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 12:44 AM Folks, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project.  I'm looking

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Pat Villani p...@freedos.org wrote: Folks, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project.  I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like your opinion.  Reason for this suggestion is that it is the only real

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Imre Leber
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:44 AM Subject: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools Folks, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project. I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Pat Villani
...@freedos.org Subject: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 12:44 AM Folks, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project. I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Pat Villani
Thanks Jeremy. I've been playing with the kernel for the last few days and building it with OW v1.9. All looks quite good and the kernel seems to behave properly. I definitely agree that source code should be written to be as portable as possible, and we can achieve that by coding to a standard

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Pat Villani
@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:44 AM *Subject:* [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools Folks, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project. I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like your opinion. Reason

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 05:33 AM 8/21/2010, Walt Nagel wrote: Another possibility worth considering is MinGW/GCC. As long as GCC is under development, by extension, MinGW will be, as well. The question here would be, do you want to use Windows, Linux or DOS as the development platform -- Windows allows a smoother

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Christian Masloch
I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project. [...] I would be interested in your opinions about standardizing one or several assemblers for the project. I think that the kernel and FreeCOM assembler source files currently use NASM, a 2-clause

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Pat Villani
Well, I wasn't going to consider the assembler yet because I didn't want to stir things up too much, but now that you ask ... I have a lot of experience with a lot of assemblers on a lot of machines. I was never too fond of masm, although I did write a lot of code using it. I preferred (note

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Travis Siegel
Regardless of what is finally settled on for use, it really needs to be something that works from the freedos environment itself. It would be kind of silly to tell folks that they need a windows machine just to recompile some code they're currently already using. If that's open watcom,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Pat Villani
Good point. Pat Project Coordinator On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: Regardless of what is finally settled on for use, it really needs to be something that works from the freedos environment itself. It would be kind of silly to tell folks that they

[Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-20 Thread Pat Villani
Folks, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project. I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like your opinion. Reason for this suggestion is that it is the only real mode compiler still under development and supported. This doesn't mean