Re: [Freedos-devel] Cutemouse build environment

[Rugxulo <ru...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Eric Auer <e....@jp...> wrote:
>
>> Need to know the version of make and link used to build Cute Mouse v2.1 beta 4.
>
> Cutemouse originally builds with tasm, tcc, tlink and the make
> of Turbo C and is compressed with UPX.
>
> Since Version 2.1b4, the driver can be compiled / assembled
> with JWASM. You need JWASMD, but also still need TLINK and
> the MAKE of Turbo C, but if somebody can make a makefile or
> make script which works with a more free MAKE and more free
> linker, it would be cool.

The makefile is mostly a no-op these days. And Japheth already (2010!)
did a fix that works with newer JWasm and now doesn't even need a
linker anymore. (Stupid Embarcadero and their "can't redistribute"
rule, ugh!!)

http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html
http://www.japheth.de/Download/DOS/ctm21b4.zip

I do remember a thread on BTTR about this, so if you enjoy details,
here it is (was):

"CuteMouse v2.1b4 - some fixes"  (09.August.2010)

http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=8529#p8529

===
"
CuteMouse v2.1b4 was converted by E. Auer to JWasm syntax in 2008.
This version is slightly outdated now and, worse, won't assemble with
newer versions of JWasm ( there was a patch posted in the FreeDOS
mailing list, but this didn't cure all issues ). Here's a fixed
version.
"
===

I've now gone ahead and uploaded this "update" (also) to iBiblio. I
moved all the much older versions to "old/" (N.B. This might possible
break some very rare links somewhere). I also made two symlinks to
make it more obvious which is which.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/mouse/

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old/                     2012-Dec-18 17:34:18    -
README                   2008-Jan-08 17:05:34    0.3K
ctm21b4.zip              2010-Aug-09 00:49:14    204.4K
ctmouse21b4-jwasm.zip    2008-Jul-13 16:56:19    270.9K
eric-old-ctmouse21b4.zip 2008-Jul-13 16:56:19    270.9K
japheth-new-ctm21b4.zip  2010-Aug-09 00:49:14    204.4K
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> The Turbo C 2.01 stuff is closed
> source but was available for free in the Borland "museum"
> website for a while. You also need EXE2BIN, the one which
> comes with FreeDOS is sufficient here.

I don't think you need EXE2BIN but instead the (already included) COM2EXE util!