Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014)
by vzaliva on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:30PM
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I've spent a lot of time porting many Unix tools to Xenix 286 for internal use. It was a paintful process. Assumptions of 32-bit size of integers were common, build tools (make, C compiler) differ in subtle ways from common Unix ones, etc.
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The version if Xenix 286 we had at work came with a cc that was similar to M/S c 5.1. It had the various memory models.
I do not know what your tools were like, but for me it was rather easy except for the usually issues with includes and Libs (assuming I remember correctly) :)
I wish I could have kept a copy for home use when I left the company. I remember it being rather nice