Compile C for pure dos mode

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BIOS Developer - 06 Jul 2004 02:55 GMT

Hi,

Due to license reasons, I recently purchase VS.Net for
ml.exe and C compiler. How do I compile C language that
can be run on Pure dos mode by using VS.Net 2003?

thx

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Lau Lei Cheong - 06 Jul 2004 03:40 GMT

As far as it is created as Windows application, it cannot be run as pure DOS
application, you can run the program in console mode, but that doesn't mean
it's DOS application either.

If you've examinated "vc7\include\stdio.h", you can see the following:

#if !defined(_WIN32)
#error ERROR: Only Win32 target supported!
#endif

For compiling DOS appication, I'll recommand those "non-visual" programming
packages, preferring the old ones as "new" ones may also have DOS program
support removed.

> Hi,
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Jim - 06 Jul 2004 03:57 GMT

>Hi,
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>thx

VS.NET only builds code for 32 bit Windows. It won't build DOS
applications, 16bit or DOS Extended. If you need that, you could
maybe look at OpenWatcom, Borland C/C++ or one of the gcc based DOS
ports.

Jim

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