The assumption is that this project will be developed on Linux (or any Posix compliant OS), and will maintain compatibilty with DOS at all times. The reason, is for better tooling (git, valgrind, strace, text-editors, clag-format ...etc).
Code is strictly C (asm where needed, nothing added yet). Supported environments:
- FreeDOS/MS-DOS/dosbox
- TurboC 2.01 - http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20841
- DJGPP - http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ (WIP, interactive shell not working)
- PacificC - http://www.grifo.com/SOFT/Pacific/uk_pacific.html (soon)
- OpenWatcoom - http://www.openwatcom.com/ (soon)
- GCC ia16 - https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16 (soon)
- OrangcC - https://github.com/LADSoft/OrangeC (soon)
- Linux
- GCC / CLang + CMake.
- Windows
- GCC / CLang + CMake
- https://github.com/LADSoft/OrangeC (soon)
- VisualStudio (?)
- OpenWatcoom - http://www.openwatcom.com/ (soon)
- BSD ? (should work, untested)
- OSX ? (should work, untested)
- SerenityOS (soon)
Check out this git repository:
git clone https://github.com/elcuco/fdbox/
cmake -S . -B build -GNinja
cmake --build build
On Windows, the best build environment I found is QtCreator. No need for Qt-dev but you will need Ninja and CMake to be installed from the installer. Before the cmake commmand type on your cmd:
set PATH=%PATH%;c:\Qt\Tools\CMake_64\bin;c:\Qt\Tools\Ninja;c:\Qt\Tools\mingw810_64\bin
By default CMake on windows tries to generate NMake (VC) files. I opted
for ninja, but MinGW Makefiles should work as well. You might want to update
the paths to Qt, CMake, Ninja and MinGW as its installed on your system. The -B build
is the build directory and can be changed as you please.
If you are using QtCreator - build will fail. Because QtCreator by default will pass QMake variables (which you may not have), and since again it will default to NMake. In the build tab, in the "Initial CMake parameters" type:
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:String=Debug
-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:STRING=%{Compiler:Executable:C}
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:STRING=%{Compiler:Executable:Cxx}
-GNinja
In etc/fdshell-qtcreator-indent.xml you will find the indentaion
configuration I use for. It should be equivalent to the clang-format
one.
I also managed to compile this project using VSCode. You willl need to install the CMake extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cmake-tools) and C++ support (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools).
If you plan on building this on DOS - there is a TurboC 2.02 project. Code does compile under TC - its tested all the time. If you want to test DJGPP/RHIDE there is a batch file which will run the correct Makefile (under the generated dos drive, see DosBox setup bellow).