16bit code generation

[King InuYasha]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/3/28 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> What is wrong with OpenWatcom? It is an open source development
> toolchain,
> >> with experimental linux binaries, yes, but they do work the last time I
> >> checked (which was when 1.8 release came out).
>
> > It's not widely available, it's license is not open enough for many
> > distros (ArchLinux has it available, and there's an initial Gentoo
> > ebuild according to their wiki), but Fedora/Suse/Ubuntu don't have it
> > available.
>
>
> It fails DFSG (so I'm surprised it passed OSI, given OSI is based on
> DFSG), with many important concerns raised:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg34684.html
>
> I emailed licensing at fsf.org to ask about it (since it isn't on their
> list of licenses) and got back a quick reply saying an official
> determination wasn't likely any time in the foreseeable future, but
> it's definitely not GPL compatible and they couldn't actually tell at
> a glance if it was FSF "free" or not.
>
>
> - d.
>
>
>
Unfortunately, at the moment it really is the best we have. AFAIK, there
isn't any other FOSS compiler that can build 16-bit DOS/Win16 applications.
Unless someone was actually willing to figure out how to make GCC be able to
target Win16 (not likely) or write a whole new compiler toolchain to target
Win16/DOS, there really isn't anything else left to use.
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