[fpc-pascal] Re: build a compiler for GO32v2 under Windows 8 (or 7)

[Philippe]

sorry ... delayed answer ... I don´t felt very well these days ....
and this subject is a bit difficult for me ... but I will give time this
week to read all I received ... and find out a way ... I´ll write later
this week 

any way, I thank you very much all for your help! 

Philippe


On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:01:50 +0200, Sven Barth wrote: 

> On
18.09.2013 18:48, Philippe wrote:
> 
>> (first time I am using the mail
list ... I may do it wrong!) I have a quite big program (now with more
than 200.000 lines), first build with TP7. For example it accesses CGA
memory through absolute address ... Years ago I moved to FPC. And it
compiled ok under Windows 98 then under XP. Now with with a new PC
running Windows 8 ... the compiler bugs. It works fine with small
program .... but not with one which executable about 1.5 Mb large (which
is my case, I did not checked till which size it works!).
> 
> It's not
necessarily a problem of your executable size, but the problem 
> is the
size/amount of units, because when compiling the compiler needs 
> to
keep all their interface meta-data in RAM.
> 
>> My program should run
in prompt command window of any MS Windows version (compiling on XP
machine, the executable runs fine on MS Windows 8 machine)
> 
> This
will however not work on a 64-bit systems as the NT Virtual DOS 
>
Machine (ntvdm.exe) is not supported there anymore.

-- 
Philippe
 


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