Packaging freedos, its GPL but no tools to compile?

[Stephen J. Smoogen]

On 1/17/06, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
>
>
> 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

Like I said stupid question. I am guessing that it would also be
impossible to get the DJPP 16 bit compilers to work with it either.

>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
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