Comments on: Quake1 with WATTCP built with DJGPP on DOSBox https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/01/05/quake1-with-wattcp-built-with-djgpp-on-dosbox/ Fun with Virtualization Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/01/05/quake1-with-wattcp-built-with-djgpp-on-dosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-18047 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:07:16 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=340#comment-18047 In reply to Rugxulo.

I’ve had major issues with old versions of cygwin1.dll locking up windows bad.. and really really old stuff working just fine… There is some weirdisims about cygwin & the win32 stack that I don’t even remember other than XP sp2 and beyond really changed the way it worked.

building binutils/gcc can be a pain, doing a cross build can be a royal pain… I think they ‘solved’ a lot of that stuff with “Canadian Cross” builds where you have a cross compiler building a cross compiler….

A million years ago there was a version of GCC you could build with Visual C++, I wonder if that could build a cross compiler for DJGPP, although again that all sounds rather confusing!

]]> By: Rugxulo https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/01/05/quake1-with-wattcp-built-with-djgpp-on-dosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-18038 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:51:27 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=340#comment-18038 Sorry for the very late response to this, feel free to ignore …. I did find out about your Cygwin cross-compiler a week or two ago, and finally just now tested it.

Honestly, I was too distrusting and lazy to actually run it under Cygwin’s Bash environment, though you didn’t include cygwin1.dll, so I did have to copy that over. (Not sure which Cygwin this was tested with, but apparently it works even with newer 1.7.) So I ended up having loads of problems trying to find headers and object files and libraries, but after a few lame kludges (-L switch, copying files, etc), it finally worked (Win7 64-bit SP1 Home Premium) and compiled a very simple example correctly.

I love “classic” GCC 2.95.3, but BinUtils 2.9.1? Meh? What’s worse is DJGPP 2.02 [sic], I’d rather have 2.03p2 with Win2k fixes. But it doesn’t matter atop Win64 anyways, so DOSBox ftw! 😉

Yeah, we’ve really needed a good Cygwin hosted cross-compiler for DJGPP for years now, but I was never adventurous enough to rebuild it. (Tried and failed. GCC is a pain.) Honestly not sure this one is 100% ideal, but it’s loads better than nothing! 😉

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