On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Saulius Krasuckas saulius2@ar.fi.lt wrote:
Would it be acceptable to use Open Watcom C compiler to crosscompile the 16-bit part? (v1.8 released two weaks ago)
That's what win16test.googlecode.com already uses, though it uses the windows version (as we had some problems using the linux version as a crosscompiler; it's supposed to work, but didn't quite).
The other annoyance is that one still can't do "apt-get install watcom-c" in ubuntu. This is unlikely ever to be fixed in Ubuntu proper because of licensing problems, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376431
Alexandre didn't like using the Windows version, see http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Coding_Hints:Test_Cases#Win16_test_and_th... so if somebody wants to have another shot at using the Linux version to cross-compile win16 problems, please do. Then our configure script can detect whether watcom is installed, and generate the win16 tests if it is.
Alternately we could just use assembly to test win16 and dos, but that would make it awful hard to port the existing win16 test suite. - Dan