cross-compiling (win16) help!

[Dorian A. Monroe, II]

It's a DOS-only program.  I'm making a bootable CD that will connect to
a Windows NT/2000 network.  It's DOS based, as the program has to run
from a bootable floppy disk (to be later converted to the bootable cd).
So it's gotta be Win16.  It doesn't have to be multi-platform.  Just the
one!  So far I've got it set up to autodetect almost every NIC that I
work with, as well as support for 3com 575, 574, & 589 pcmcia NICs.  All
my menus have been written with Kixtart.  

The particular program I'm working on will take a file (system.ini) and
change all instances of "A:\Net" & other variables and change them to
reflect the actual location in the \Net folder, after a ramdrive is
created.  This needs to be changed at runtime, as the ramdrive won't
necessarily be assigned to the same drive letter every time.  I already
have an exe that will work, however I don't like it as it spits a bunch
of junk out to the screen that I can't redirect to >nul.  I've gotten it
rewritten in C++ to my satisfaction under Linux and tested under Win32,
however I still need it to run under true 16-bit DOS.  98% of the time,
this will be used to connect to a network share to run Ghost.  

If I get any time to work on it this weekend, I'll pull out my Borland
5.0 & see if I can get it going.  Otherwise, I may be sending it out to
Liberty for a little TurboC 3.0 action!  



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Liberty Young
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 7:20 PM
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Subject: Re: cross-compiling (win16) help!

Alan,

I'm running TurboC 3.0 (Turbo C for 16 bit DOS applications, no way no
how will it run in Windows or any 32bit OS) from my Linux box with
dosemu and freedos. 

If you need to compile the program to run in DOS only (not windows), i
can compile it for you. If you are going to use Turbo C 4 that runs in
dos, not windows, then email me and i'll try to help you set up dosemu
with freedos...otherwise, for a true cross platform solution, Visual
Studio or Turbo C 5 with wine. 




On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 19:00, Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Friday 23 May 2003 04:02 pm, Dorian A. Monroe, II wrote:
> > Hi Folks!
> >
> > I'm working on a little C++ app for a project I'm doing.  I've
written the
> > code the way I want it, and it works just fine for me under Linux
(Mandrake
> > 9.1, fairly vanilla install).  Unfortunately, I need it to run under
DOS,
> > and I don't know compiler/linker options well at all, or even how to
begin
> > cross-compiling for a Win16 environment.
> >
> > I've even moved the app over to MS VC++ 6.0, but I'm still too much
of a
> > dummy to be able to create a Win16 app in there.  The executable
size is
> > still waaaay too big for my needs anyhow.  It needs to be oh, as
small as
> > possible, and stripping out the default compiler & linker options in
VC++,
> > I can only get the exe down to about 150k.  I have less than 2k of
code,
> > including comments.
> >
> > My other option is to dig out my copy of Borland C++ 5.0 on 50 or so
floppy
> > disks and compile it from that.  I'd be willing to email my source
if
> > someone wants to compile it for me!  Or let me know what compiler &
linker
> > options or packages I'd need to install to be able to do it myself
from my
> > Mandrake box would be fine too.  Give a man a fish, you feed him for
a day.
> >  Teach him how to fish...  :)    Thanks in advance!!
> >
> >   -- Dorian
> 
> First, you may want to post this to the plug-devel email list.  It's
where the 
> developers and programmers hang out.
> 
> You need define the MS based target platform better.  First you said
you want 
> it to run on DOS and then you talked about Win16.  It is also possible
to 
> compile it as a 32 bit DOS application which means it has to run under

> Windows 95 or newer but runs in a DOS screen without a GUI.
> 
> Anyway, start by specifying these parameters:
> 16-bit or 32-bit? MS Visual C++ 6.0 CANNOT make a 16-bit application.
(That's 
> correct, cannot.)  Version 1.5 was the last version to do 16-bit apps.
> 
> DOS or GUI?
> 
> Do you have to use MS tools or do you want to use others?  I believe
there are 
> a few open source or Free Software tools to compile DOS applications.
> 
> From there, more help is possible.
> 
> Alan
> 
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