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DJGPP love Window$ ? (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 15.09.2013, 20:08

> Since I try to port these programs to DOS this is a big problem for me.
> Even programs that used to support djgpp drop djgpp support now since they
> see no reason for supporting djgpp any more and probably can no longer test
> it.

Anybody who says they can't test is a liar. We have several ways of testing (RUFUS, DOSEMU, VirtualBox). The simple truth is they don't care (or maybe just aren't experienced enough to actually make it work).

> I just did s speed test on my PC compiling complete Dillo:
> Windows XP DOS box: 2 Minutes, 9 Seconds
> Real Mode DOS: 24 Minutes, 43 Seconds.

There's no way this is optimal. Like I said, I compiled p7zip much faster atop a RAM disk (compiler included) with SFNs than even with DOSEMU under Linux.

But I've never rebuilt Dillo, so I don't know how easy it would be. But it certainly shouldn't be anywhere near that slow, trust me.

> I tried now to copy djgpp and the dillo source to an xmsdisk. Howver, that
> did not work since I could not get doslfn to support long file names on the
> xmsdisk.

Try Jack's RDISK, that's what I use, and it works with DOSLFN fine.

 

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