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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fdn.fr!fasterix.frmug.fr.net!tetard.freenix.fr!not-for-mail From: regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net (Philippe Regnauld) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dosemu on FreeBSD? Date: 26 Jan 1996 13:49:30 +0100 Organization: Freenix User Group Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4eaikq$egd@tetard.frmug.fr.net> References: <4e61g2$hsd@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: tetard.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: dosemu FreeBSD X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) atrens@bmerh8bf.bnr.ca (Andrew Atrens) writes: >I've tried building dosemu on FreeBSD with little success... the build seems >to involve the 'as86' assembler and 'ld86' linker. I got the source for these >but they don't seem to play nicely together under FreeBSD. Has anyone had >any success with this? *sigh* Dosemu requires vm86 modes, AND the libvga, none of which are actually supported or ported to BSD. Some work is being done on Dosemu, I know, but I have no idea of the level of development. >As an alternative, can the linux binary for dosemu be run in "LINUX >Compatibility" mode? If so, which *type* of linux binary should I look for >zmagic, omagic, elf, or something else completely different :} As I said, the problem does not come from the sources, it comes from inexistant kernel support and libraries. -- PHil -- - [ regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net / +48.8N+2.3E / +33 1 4507 9391 / Sol 3 ] - - [ regnauld@freenix.fr / FreeBSD 2.x / ] - "Le schtroumpf est à l'homme ce que le bleu est au billard" - F.Berjon