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DJGPP and OpenWatcom (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 01.03.2008, 00:26

> Besides speed (which is not that important IMO) is that OW supports C++.
> Also, they improved the CRT concerning size. A simple 32bit DOS "hello
> world" binary with OW is now just 17 kB.
OpenWatcom supports C++, but their support is not nearly as modern / standard as DJGPP / G++.

BTW, that 17k .EXE, is that from 1.8 beta? Does that include DOS extender or just the DOS/4GW stub? Is that before or after UPXing?

> DGPJJ's disadvantage is its non-zerobased memory model. And the binaries
> are bloated. And WD is better than GDB. I prefer OW. IMO since OW exists
> there's no reason anymore to use DGPJJ at all.
DJGPP handles LFNs unlike OpenWatcom for DOS. (But yes, Win32 .EXEs via HXRT could use LFNs). Also, response files, cmdline globbing, long cmdlines, symlinks (2.04), DXEs (e.g. FPU emulation), among other things.

> WASM is a toy. I thought you know that. :-D (Still better than ASS of
> course)
You mean GNU as? Yeah, I dunno why anybody bothers using that as a stand-alone assembler in lieu of YASM, NASM, FASM, etc. The only advantage, as I've said before, would be its ubiquity, but even NASM is pretty much everywhere now. (I mean, most Linux distros have a billion packages, so it is really that big a deal to assume NASM too??)

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