Packaging freedos, its GPL but no tools to compile?

[Hans de Goede]

Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As discussed sometime ago I'm planning on packaging dosemu. I would
>> really like to also package freedos and make dosemu depend on it so that
>> dosemu actually has something to boot.
>>
> 
> Now for the stupid comment from the peanut gallery. How hard would it
> be to get freedos to compile under cygnus-tools? Man-years? Or not the
> right tool at all.
> 

Erm cygwin is a 32bit windoze compiler, freedos is a 16bit KERNEL (like 
no OS underneed) and 16bit dos programs like command.com

Regards,

Hans