Re: [Tinycc-devel] Tiny C for DOS

[Felix Nawothnig]

(back to tcc-devel)

Hanzac Chen wrote:
> > Are you sure about that? The Win32 port already generates COFF objects
> > so what else do we need except a new CRT? Maybe it's possible to use the
> > DJGPP CRT even?
> Yes. I tried that last year. Using the DJGPP to compile it doesn't
> need some extra efforts. I used it to generate ELFs.

No, I mean maybe it's possible to do:

C:\>tcc-pe.exe -c foo.c -o foo.obj
C:\>some-coff-linker.exe foo.obj djgpp-crt*.obj -o foo.exe

> BTW: Win32 COFF and DJGPP COFF are differenct in the relocation type 6
> (absolute reloc).

Well, I guess we can adapt the Win32 port to support DJGPP COFF...

> > You'd have to use a third-party linker until TCC supports generation of
> > 16-bit EXEs though.
> I don't think that TCC will generate 16-bit EXEs. 'cause 16-bit code
> generation is different.

I mean MZ EXEs, not 16-bit code (just linking support).

Nevertheless... hacking in support for the tiny/small model shouldn't be 
too hard.

Felix