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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Using a Sun386i for DOS application development (was: Sun 386 info)
Summary: cross compilers
Keywords: sun 386 Roadrunner
Message-ID: <11015@jade.BBN.COM>
Date: 14 May 88 17:27:01 GMT
References: <148@gsg.UUCP> <10928@jade.BBN.COM> <228@pvab.UUCP>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Organization: BBN Laboratories Incorporated, Cambridge, MA
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In comp.sys.misc (<228@pvab.UUCP>), robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson) writes:
>Can I use Sun's SunOS C compiler and compile to DOS format with a special
>switch or so (like the Xenix C compiler)?

No, you can't use the SunOS 4.0 compiler to generate DOS executables.

However, there are several companies that do Sun-based cross-compiler
suites for this sort of thing.  There are reasonably current versions 
of Lattice C and Microsoft C, as well as MASM, Microsoft's linker, and 
Phoenix's linker available on Sun-3's, so it shouldn't be long before
they appear on the 386i.

[Before anyone asks, I think the Microsoft stuff is available from
 Oasys.  The Lattice and Phoenix versions were available directly
 from Lattice last time I checked.  Unipress also sold them at one 
 point, but I don't know if that's still true.]
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