Re: [Nasm-devel] 16-bit DOS hosted NASM

[Bart O. <bar...@bt...>]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> By the way, is this version of Watcom available?  I know some of the
> Watcom compilers are downloadable these days?

There is an 11.0c binary "patch" available which is in fact a full
compiler. It just misses a DOS extender and things like windows.h. For
16-bit DOS targets it's complete. I usually compile the FreeDOS kernel
using Watcom C (and NASM) in DOSEMU nowadays. The reason for my bug fix is
that recent NASMs could not assemble the relevant FreeDOS files anymore.

The Watcom source code is available too (since May). Andi Kleen ported
the code generator to compile with gcc a couple of months ago, but after
that I haven't heard from him on that front. I have the full compiler
now compiled using gcc so can cross compile from Linux to DOS/Windows
using wcc(386). Watcom C cannot produce ELF objects yet though.

Look around at www or ftp.openwatcom.org.

Bart