DOS ain't dead

The question is about gcc.bat. About the line with link.

link.exe is a part of the Visual C++ 2003 toolkit? I didn't find out that it's a part of DJGPP or MinGW (there it's called ld.exe). The only real link.exe I found is a part of the Visual C++ 2003 toolkit.

But how is this supposed to work? It's called DJGPP example, this implicates that the example shall be compiled under DOS. But link.exe is a Win32 executable.

Or does it want the latest linker for DOS from ms, VC++V1.52C?

Or is it supposed to use DJGPP under Windows with Visual C++ 2003 toolkit installed and both in path variable, DJGPP and the vc++ toolkit?

> The question is about gcc.bat. About the line with link.
>
> link.exe is a part of the Visual C++ 2003 toolkit? I didn't find out that
> it's a part of DJGPP or MinGW (there it's called ld.exe). The only real
> link.exe I found is a part of the Visual C++ 2003 toolkit.

Yes, it was MS link. Other MS COFF linkers (WLINK, POLINK) will do the job as well.

> But how is this supposed to work? It's called DJGPP example, this
> implicates that the example shall be compiled under DOS. But link.exe is a
> Win32 executable.

MS link runs in DOS with HXRT. But if you don't like that, use WLINK from Open Watcom.

> Or does it want the latest linker for DOS from ms, VC++V1.52C?

No, that tool doesn't know how to create PE binaries.

> Or is it supposed to use DJGPP under Windows with Visual C++ 2003 toolkit
> installed and both in path variable, DJGPP and the vc++ toolkit?

No, just the linker was used, the sample is unrelated to MS VCTK2003.

Btw, please note that the DGPJJ sample was tested with v2.03. I was told that for v2.04 the modified startup code won't work. Perhaps, if you tell me what you want to achieve I might be able to help.

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MS-DOS forever!

> But if you don't like that, use WLINK from
> Open Watcom.

Seams that wlink is no jump in replacement.

It's not that I dislike link.exe from ms because of being non free. This notion would be a bit to fundamental also for me.

The thing is the dll hell, link.exe depends on several dll's and I seam to have currently the wrong versions. But I think with experimenting I will get link.exe to run under dos.

> Btw, please note that the DGPJJ sample was tested with v2.03. I was told
> that for v2.04 the modified startup code won't work.

I was scared for the first time to use the beta so i use the old version. ;)

> Perhaps, if you tell me what you want to achieve I might be able to help.

Thanks! :)

Basically two different things.
a) related to this thread - developing under dos and using hx as dos extender
b) not related to this thread - compiling my console applications under windows and statically linking hx so the exe will run under windows and dos at the same time out of the box