[GEM Development] Cross-building the video drivers

[geneb]

On Sat, 11 May 2024, John Elliott wrote:

> I came across a mention of this DOS emulator the other day:
> https://github.com/dmsc/emu2 . Rather than a full emulator like DOSBOX,
> it runs a single DOS program in the terminal, mapping file accesses to
> the current directory.
>
> Seems to work well enough that I can build the GEM video drivers from
> the Linux terminal, just by changing the Makefile to add
>
> RASM86 = emu2 rasm86.exe
> LINK86 = emu2 link86.exe
>
> at the top of the file, and then replacing subsequent 'rasm86' and
> 'link86' with '$(RASM86)' and '$(LINK86)'
>
> Slower than a virtualised solution like DOSEMU, but having proper
> integration with the Linux terminal feels like it makes up for that.
>

That's pretty cool.

g.

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