Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386

Re:Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for ... by Crinus on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:45AM (#21145523)

As someone mentioned below you could also use OpenWatcom, if for no other reason than it should have a slightly better optimizer (though from my tests i haven't seen much of a difference between the two, at least for code i tried to optimize a lot myself). AFAIK one of the OWv2 contributors is working on a 16bit OS so the 16bit support should be excellent.

OWv2 is also available as a Linux binary so you could use it for crosscompiling in a similar way to GCC.

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Re:Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for ... by qx89l4 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:55PM (#21149093)

Good point, OpenWatcom is obviously miles ahead of Turbo C, but it's also much more complex. I tinkered with it for a while, and ended up using the latter for its simplicity.

DOSBox can be easily installed on any system, you can save the entire C: in a git repo and it'll probably keep working in any number of years from now :)

Meanwhile, OWC doesn't have packages in popular Linux distros, only a custom binary installer, and on MacOS it doesn't even have that.

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