On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Pat Villani <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler > for the project. I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like > your opinion. Reason for this suggestion is that it is the only real mode > compiler still under development and supported. > > This doesn't mean that I want to drop the build options currently in our > source code. Instead, I'd like to add Open Watcom to FreeCOM, install and > memory configs and build official releases with Open Watcom. > > Care to share? > > Pat Villani > Project Coordinator >
I agree we should officially standardize on Open Watcom. I believe unofficially we started switching to it a while ago, and all recent release kernels are built with OW. I would like to add that when feasible [desirable, applies to the program, not too much of burden, ...] we should use OW 1.9 (or later) with its long file name support and when it does not adversely effect the DOS version, effort should be made to support* portability in terms of of source compilable with other compilers and/or ability to compile with OW to its other target OSes. (* I do not mean to imply writing code for other compilers/platforms, but when writing/modifying keeping them in mind and choosing design decisions accordingly.) Jeremy Davis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
