[fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

[Sven Barth]

On 20.02.2014 02:49, waldo kitty wrote:
>> even if you do, trunk with the plain 16-bit msdos support might still
>> do it
>> for you).
>
> i've pulled DOS262 with the GO memory extender but have not yet
> installed it on the system due to other questions not yet posed...
>
> i'm not sure what "trunk with 16 bit support" you speak of... i think it
> may be the recent work being done on 8086 support... is this right? if
> so, then trunk /may/ be where i want to go /but/ my OS/2 box doesn't
> have the ability to pull trunk and compile the DOS version... at least,
> not as far as i know... so far, i'm been relegated to pulling and
> installing the release snapshots on my OS/2 box... my winwhatever boxen,
> on the other hand, do pull and use trunk... at some point i hope to
> figure out how to perform cross compiling on so that i can work on a
> project on any platform and compile it for any other environment... this
> is part of the above mentioned questions not yet posed ;)

This entry in the wiki page for the 16-bit compiler contains a link to 
another page where seems to be mentioned how the cross compiler can be 
build on Windows and also the tools required: 
http://wiki.freepascal.org/DOS#Snapshots

Regards,
Sven