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In article <2BACBDD0.6300@ics.uci.edu> honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig) writes:
>I'm considering getting a notebook clone so I can type in the outdoors.
>I want to be able to compile there as well.  But this would be a satellite
>relationship to my real accounts on suns.  So it would be great if I could
>use gcc on a PC.  Just gimme DOS, a compiler, a variant of emacs,
>probably a deskview multitasker, and a liter of water...

There is a port of gcc to ms-dos, requiring a 386 or better.  It's only of
gcc 2.2.2 (later ports REALLY broke the 8.3 filename limitations, and no
one has fixed it yet).  It's a very good implementation, all the tools you'll
ever need (ld, ar, bison, flex, nm, etc etc etc), very active email list.

You can find the port on omnigate.clarkson.edu in pub/msdos/djgpp (it's also
on the GNU CD, I do believe).  

Works well with desqview (quarterdeck has released libraries so you can compile
X apps for dv/x).  A lot has been ported with it, including emacs, all the
filutl, txtutl, zoo, pbmplus, lotsa other stuff.  

dos-extender is used, letting you have 128M physical memory, 128M virtual
memory.  Gdb isn't supported, due to the single tasking nature of dos,
though i think someone from Cygnus wrote a patch that lets you remote debug
from a unix box via the serial cable.

To change the subject a bit, if you just want to do unix programming and don't
care about DOS, you might consider checking out Linux and bsd386 (or is it
386bsd? i forget which is the free version).  Both have gcc ports, and will
probably be a much more familiar environment.

Oh, djgpp is also on simtel20 et al in pd1:<msdos.djgpp> (check out 
comp.archives.msdos[.d] for more info on simtel20 an it's mirror archives),
emacs is in pd1:<msdos.demacs>

Check out ftp.math.niu.edu in pub/msdos/djgpp.stuff for a mirror of omnigate
along with ports of djgpp compiled stuff (zoo, txtutl, filutl, etc)

mrc
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