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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:24:48 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: boot disk....
Message-ID:  <199510300824.JAA04933@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510300635.RAA01084@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 30, 95 05:05:19 pm

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As Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > fbsdboot should _be_ a DOS program and be built as a FreeBSD program.
> > Then it would be easier to add extensions to it.
> 
> If you have any magic techniqes for converting a FreeBSD binary into DOS
> EXE format, I'm keen 8)  I currently use the GNU toolchain and the DJGPP 
> libraries as a cross-development platform for much of our DOS work.

bcc (``Bruce's C compiler'', it's in the packages) can compile 16-bit
code.  With a bit trickery, it's possible to build a .COM file from it
(but no .EXE).  Look into the pcemu port collection to see how i did
it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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