Re: [Freedos-user] Linux freedos cross compiler

2007-03-20 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 01:32, me wrote: Could you give me a little more detail please. I want to cross compile a program in linux to run on freedos. I have slackwareware 11 installed dual boot with freedos. Can I get gcc 3.4.6 to compile a binary to run on freedos? If so could you you tell

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux freedos cross compiler

2007-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Wesley, how does djgpp turn a Un*x binary into a DOS executable? There's a 32-bit DOS stub that gets attached... That is not the only difference. DJGPP also links with a DOS specific C library, because for example the kernel calls needed to open a file differ from those used on a Linux

[Freedos-user] But: dos on real computers - we need drivers

2007-03-20 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, I know that many people are using DOS in an emulator/virtualizer. But remember many more are using it on old computers or even on new one! So we still need driver for DOS! f.e. we need driver for sound cards, printers and wlan-cards. At Dr-DOS-forum