On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 20:30 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:01, djch <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm new to wine (1.1.29), and I want to run borland C 4.5 to build a DOS app. > > > Wine's DOS support is not very good... Dosbox might work better.... > (Assuming that Borland C is a DOS program...) > Borland C 3.x used a DOS IDE but Borland C 4.5 uses a Windows IDE. However, thats just the IDE. AFAIK its version of make and the compiler, linker, library builder, etc are all DOS programs. Borland C 4.5 is pretty old, though: I have a copy of 4.52 installed on a Win 95 box. It can also cause portability problems since its non POSIX and has the usual horrid collection of DOS-specific library functions. The OP might also like to look at more modern C compilers, especially the free Open Source ones based on the GNU C compiler: - DJGPP - see http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ I've used this. It works well and is source and library compatible with the gcc compiler used for Linux. Its much better than Borland C ever was at catching address errors before they trash Windows. I know nothing about running it under WINE: there is nothing in appDB about it. - mingw - see http://www.mingw.org/ I've not used this though it has a good reputation. I know nothing about running it under WINE but appDB says it works and so do its usual support utilities. There are a couple of IDEs for it that ran under WINE 0.9. You can also build mingw as a cross compiler. This runs natively in Linux to generate DOS/Windows executables. This could be the way to go: the project could be developed and tested as a Linux executable before being cross-compiled for final testing under WINE. Martin
