Does anyone know of a Linux tool to create a 16-bit DOS executable? I'm looking for a C or C++ cross-development tool of some sort. I don't believe the gcc compiler can be persuaded to create 16-bit executables?
Hmmm, not neccessarily an embedded question, I guess, but it's for an embedded application.
TIA Trev
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Try a DOS compiler (e.g. Borland) and a Linux DOS emulator?
Paul Burke
Not that I know of. If at all, GCC would most likely be limited to 64 KB *.com type executables.
It might be possible to coerce the dev86 / bcc toolchain to build DOS executables.
Well, in case nothing else works, you can always run the free version of TurboC 2.01 or TurboC++ 1.0 in a DOSEMU ;-)
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Yeah, I'm already using Watcom on VMWare, but it's a pain, I was really just trying to see if there's something native.
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Yep, dev86
Rob
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Take a look at this article, maybe something here:
I suppose if you can persude the linker to start an a.out file to start at
0x100, it will be a perfect DOS .com file. DOS happely executes 32 bit code, but you have to watch the 0x66 and 0x67 prefixes for the instructions, as their meaning is opposite if the processor whether in 8088 or protected mode as far as I remember.Wim
i've used the topspeed compiler under dosemu quite successfully. I suppose that the other dos compilers wkill also work under dosemu as well.
hth goose,
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