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some experiences with OW v1.8 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 04.03.2009, 02:50

> 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.

Complete thread:

• Open Watcom 1.8 available - rr, 24.02.2009, 22:30 (Announce)
  • some experiences with OW v1.8 - Japheth, 28.02.2009, 15:23
    • some experiences with OW v1.8 - DOS386, 01.03.2009, 08:19
    • some experiences with OW v1.8 - Rugxulo, 04.03.2009, 02:50