• lcc future - opensource?

    From jacob navia@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 2 18:21:45 2015
    Le 31/08/2015 20:29, federation2005@netzero.com a écrit :
    Do bear in mind that much of the Windows specific stuff can already be found in

    other freely available sources (by which I mean Watcom).

    So it's mainly a matter of marrying the main LCC distribution with it.

    I suspect that was initially the main route Jacob took to derive
    LCC-Win[32/64]

    from LCC since I see Watcom vestiges in the LCC-Win distribution.


    Look, that is wrong. I did not use ANYTHING from Watcom since Watcom was released to the public domain in 2002 and I started to work in lcc-win
    in 1995.

    Watcom is mainly a 32 bit compiler. I did not know that they had a 64
    bit one?

    In Sourceforge the notice says:

    Description
    C/C++ compilers and tools to compile and build for targets
    DOS 16/32-bit, RDOS, Windows 16/32-bit, OS/2 16/32 bit, Linux 32-bit
    (x86), Netware

    running on host OS DOS, Windows 16/32/64-bit, OS/2, Linux 32/64-bit
    (x86/x64)


    Targets are 32 bit ONLY.

    Now, what you propose is feasible: take the lcc 32 bit distribution, use
    the Watcom assembler and linker and IDE and whatever and make an hybrid
    32 bit compiler.

    But a 64 bit compiler with a 64 bit linker and a 64 bit debugger?

    That is also feasible but then you have to port everything to 64 bit and
    you have for several years of work.

    Please write to me if you need the source code of lcc-win. But you will
    have to pay for it because I worked hard to write that. I hope you see
    that is fair.

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  • From federation2005@netzero.com@21:1/5 to Walter Banks on Mon Aug 31 11:29:55 2015
    On Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 8:21:10 PM UTC-5, Walter Banks wrote:
    John Conrad wrote:
    Jacob, it seems like u do all this great lcc-developing job completely alone.
    For years and years.
    Are u going to share lcc sources with community in future?
    Why not negotiate a price with Jacob for his ip in the compiler. Pass
    the hat with other like minded open source souls and make it open
    source. That way both you and Jacob would be happy.

    Because if he doesn't others (e.g. me) may well do so instead and that will be the end of that. So the clock of doom is ticking for any discussion of pricing.

    Do bear in mind that much of the Windows specific stuff can already be found in other freely available sources (by which I mean Watcom). So it's mainly a matter of marrying the main LCC distribution with it. I suspect that was initially the main route
    Jacob took to derive LCC-Win[32/64] from LCC since I see Watcom vestiges in the LCC-Win distribution.

    In addition it's quite possible to combine it with small freely available multi-platform multimedia libraries (by which I mean SDL :)) to even provide some semblance of a cross-platform audio/video/gaming support.

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