DOS ain't dead

The Open Watcom contributors have released version 1.8 on 21 February 2009.

Home page: http://www.openwatcom.org/
Download: http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download
Announcement: http://groups.google.com/group/openwatcom.contributors/browse_thread/thread/5ecc7c4919d0402
Changes: http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/C_Compilers_Release_Changes#List_of_changes_in_Open_Watcom_1.8

Downloadable archives are renamed from RC4. So no need to download again, if you already have RC4.

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I just tried to switch to OW v1.8. However, there are incompatibilities. So the DOS version of JWasm cannot be created anymore with OW v1.8, and some of the samples included in HXDEV also will give link errors. What's worse, there's probably no simple workaround possible without changes in the OW source. So, all in all it's a bit disappointing

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MS-DOS forever!

> all in all it's a bit disappointing

Thanks for sharing this "good" news ... is the C compiler broken or WLINK or both ?

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> I just tried to switch to OW v1.8. However, there are incompatibilities. So
> the DOS version of JWasm cannot be created anymore with OW v1.8, and some
> of the samples included in HXDEV also will give link errors. What's worse,
> there's probably no simple workaround possible without changes in the OW
> source. So, all in all it's a bit disappointing

The Win32 version still runs under HXRT under DOS, so that's good enough. Or you could compile with relocs and just use WDOSX.