Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 22:54:04 EDT
From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin AT cygnus DOT com>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: compiling go32.exe

I've been trying to build go32... since it needs a 16-bit compiler, I
went and got Turbo C++ 3.0, which had Turbo C. That seems to compile
the .c files with only a few warnings (once adding -P-c to CFLAGS) but
then I discovered that the package doesn't include the Turbo
Assembler. (I haven't yet figured out where to get that -- there are
references to it being part of some Borland "professional" package in
some ads, but I haven't seen anything in the catalogs I've got, in
particular there's nothing in the literature that came with Turbo
C++...)
	I've tried several assemblers (Microsoft MASM 1.25 and several
freeware assemblers off of simtel20) and all of them seem to have
problems with the "segment" directives as used in the start_data16 and
similar macros. Is there any other assembler that will work as/is? If not,
has anyone ported these macros, or at least has a description of what
they really mean and how to change them for other assemblers?
				_Mark_ <eichin AT athena DOT mit DOT edu>
				MIT Student Information Processing Board
				Cygnus Support <eichin AT cygnus DOT com>

ps. I'm trying to rebuild go32/debug32 because I'm working on
integrating the gdb serial remote stub changes into it. The changes
should be simple -- they don't really need anything that debug32
doesn't already do... but I'm still trying to get as far as building
it unchanged...