[Lazarus] Why development remains constant for msdos?

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 09/23/2013 10:14 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Nikolay Nikolov <nickysn at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nickysn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     OpenWatcom may be the only other compiler that is able to do it,
>     since they haven't dropped 16-bit support and are supposedly
>     working on 64-bit, but their 64-bit port is still not ready AFAIK.
>
>
> FWIW, there is an OpenWatcom fork which is under more active 
> development than the "main" one and has 64bit support there: 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openwatcom/. I haven't tried the 64bit 
> support myself though.

Interesting. I didn't know about it. From the features list:

"DOS version of tools now support long file names (LFN) if appropriate 
LFN driver is loaded by DOS"

Maybe we could use their linker for our go32v2 hosted crosscompiler to 
i8086.

Nikolay
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