Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:20:21 +0100 (MET)
From: Gisle Vanem <giva AT bryggen DOT bgnett DOT no>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Running Borland compiler from GNU Make
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Stephen Roderick <stephen_roderick AT ssl DOT umd DOT edu> said:
 
> Using gnu make to run bcc.exe (Borland's 16-bit compiler) under
> DOS (Winddoze 95 DOS) provides a nice descriptive error of
>
> "Loader error (0025): cannot initialize"
>
> which I presume is the Borland and GNU tools differing in access to
> protected mode.
 
They both use their own DOS-extender which are not mixing well.
OTOH, Borland's rtm.exe is locking hardware interrupt handlers in a
non-standard way. Same problem applies to Pharlap tools and
Borland extended tools.
 
>
> Has anyone got this to work?
 
It should work only with the old Turbo-C (AFAIK pre 2.0) real-mode
tools. Spawning djgpp tools from Borland's maker.exe also works.
                                               ^
> And before you ask, yes I'd love to use GCC but that just isn't an
> acceptable option here. Sigh ...
 
Borland comes with it's own make. Why not use that?


Gisle V.