From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DXEs and other OSs, revisited
Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2000 9:55:20
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> Can the DXE system be ported to win32?  And will a DXE compiled using normal
> DJGPP work with a win32 application?

A DXE compiled and built with DJGPP should hopefully work under Win32 if you
compile and link in the routines to load it.  If not, it should be fixed :-)
Registers saved and call standards might be a problem.

> I already know there's no problems with using DXEs with linux-gcc programs.
> What about win32?
> 
> MingW?  Cygnus?  RSXNTDJ?  Borland?  MSVC?  etc?

If you look at the code that does the DXE load I don't believe you will see 
anything operating system dependent.  The only potential gotcha is if 
the CS/DS selector bases must be the same since you are malloc'ing memory
and then trying to execute it (so CS limit must allow this too).

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