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DJDEV 2.04 "beta" (2003) and CVS (Announce)

posted by RayeR Homepage, CZ, 02.12.2011, 19:23

> IIRC, all Ozkan did here was recompile one of the latest CVS releases (from
> Martin's page??), nothing else. It seems to work in Hexen 2, but I've not
> used his DJDEV CVS snapshot for rebuilding anything, so I don't know
> otherwise how good it is. ("if you want to use latest GCC 4.6.x correctly"
> ... I don't know what that means, and I halfway doubt it. It works, more or
> less, with stock 2.04 "beta" from 2003. I haven't checked, but I assume it
> was also compiled with similar library version. EDIT: Hmmm, no, apparently
> not, it must use Ozkan's compile. That's weird for an "official" DJGPP GCC
> release. BinUtils 2.21.1 still used stock 2.04.)
I had trouble with new gcc and old djdev because of old inline definition in system header files. It caused that new gcc didn't recognized inline attribute well and then linker failed to build because of multiple code of same function. This is one reason why I updated my djdev.

> I'm ashamed to admit that I had to get a new Win7 Core i5 (6 GB) machine
> because my old XP P4 machine (128 MB RAM ftw!) died. Does it work with
> native FreeDOS? More or less. Hexen 2 (now) works okay (without sound,
> natch), but other stuff (Seed7 compiler + GCC) has issues. In short, I'm
> not sure most (if any) DOS software was ever truly expected to handle 2 GB,
> much less 4 GB, or 6 GB. At least, r7 is the only one even noticing 4 GB,
> and it's got a few (newly-found) bugs.
I also have installed FreeDOS on my PC at work - i5-750. In basic it works and also I run DJGPP there without problem. Sometimes it happed that USB keyboard after boot is not responding. I guess it is, as Japhet would say, el-cheapo HP BIOS and it's USB legacy KB emulation. Also there's problem with LFB speed and MTRR settings but it may be my bug, I didn't have time to resolve it yet...

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