gnupic: Thread: GPASM for MS-DOS?

Has anyone built GPASM for MS-DOS?  Several of my projects using
the Ubicom (formerly Scenix) SX will now only assemble with GPASM,
and I expect that any day now I'll start getting requests and
complaints from people not running Unix.

I imagine it could be compiled with either Borland's Turbo C (now
available free from their web site), DJGPP, or CygWin32, although
a binary produced with CygWin32 binary will not run under plain MS-DOS.

If no one has already done this, I'll look into it myself.

Thanks!
Eric

DJGPP might be the best bet as GPASM was designed with gcc in mind.  
Something to look into.

On Friday 05 January 2001 12:24 am, Eric Smith wrote:
> Has anyone built GPASM for MS-DOS?  Several of my projects using
> the Ubicom (formerly Scenix) SX will now only assemble with GPASM,
> and I expect that any day now I'll start getting requests and
> complaints from people not running Unix.
>
> I imagine it could be compiled with either Borland's Turbo C (now
> available free from their web site), DJGPP, or CygWin32, although
> a binary produced with CygWin32 binary will not run under plain MS-DOS.
>
> If no one has already done this, I'll look into it myself.
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
>
>
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GPASM can be compiled by DJGPP.  The result is executable, but has a bug.  It
does not generate the hex file correctly.  I didn't spend the time to figure
out why.  The list file is correct.  But the memory dumps (gpasm -m) are also
wrong.

It is most likely a problem that can be fixed.  It is only a question of
spending the time to do it.  

Is there a demand for a DOS version of gpasm?  In general, I would say it is
best to stick with MPASM or SPASM for DOS/Windows environments.  If a large
number of people request GPASM for DOS, I will consider fixing the problem.
 
Feel free to take this one on yourself.  Attached to this email is the makefile
I used and instructions on how to download and install DJGPP.  I wrote the
makefile.  The instuctions were generated by: 

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html

If you fix the problem let us know.  We can create a "Port to DOS" document and
add it to the docs directory in CVS.

My best advice is to find out why your projects aren't compiling
by the Ubicom compiler and use it. 

On Fri, 05 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Has anyone built GPASM for MS-DOS?  Several of my projects using
> the Ubicom (formerly Scenix) SX will now only assemble with GPASM,
> and I expect that any day now I'll start getting requests and
> complaints from people not running Unix.
> 
> I imagine it could be compiled with either Borland's Turbo C (now
> available free from their web site), DJGPP, or CygWin32, although
> a binary produced with CygWin32 binary will not run under plain MS-DOS.
> 
> If no one has already done this, I'll look into it myself.
> 
> Thanks!
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
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