Re: Patch set to ease replacement of BCC compiler

Juan Perez-Sanchez <[email protected]> Thu, 21 May 2015 09:13:47 -0500

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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:23 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> The compilers considered are open-watcom
>> and ia16-unknown-elks-gcc.
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> We should keep in mind that open-watcom has a minefield license.
> One ought to be careful to not introduce any dependency on it.
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> Juan, wonder if you tried/considered Coherent C compiler?
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No, and the reason is that I don't have any idea of how much work is
needed to make it functional under linux.

Another candidate is TACK, many times proposed in this list. It would
be nice to have staticly linked binaries for linux available.

Juan