Dec. 26, 2009 : only updated disk #3 (w/ srcs), others (#1, #2) are still from Sep. 15, 2008

You can grab individual packages (bin or src) from FreeDOS 1.0 (2006) at iBiblio.org if necessary.

 

(N.B. disk #1 uses 386+ "2038pre" kernel, #2 is 8086+ "2037 WinKern", #3 is 8086+ "2036")

(Some of this stuff is only for non-commercial use, esp. disk #3, but most should be okay either way.)

(All three disks use FAT32-enabled FreeDOS kernels while still supporting FAT12 and FAT16.)

 

misc. FSF licenses for your reading pleasure (heh):    lgpl21.txt  gpl2.txt  gpl3.txt

( unofficial E-o translation of v2 can be found at http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/Cetero/gpl.html )

 

diskone.txt | disktwo.txt | dskthree.txt (list of contents for all files on each w/ DESCRIPT.IONs)

diskone.zip  | disktwo.zip | dskthree.zip (.IMG files w/ floppy-writing DOS .EXE stub + UNIMG + FD diskcopy)

d1-files.zip | d2-files.zip | d3-files.zip (files from each .IMG unpacked, if you prefer it)

 

d1-src.7z (5.5 Mb) -- everything except UPXDUMP (no srcs available ... until now!)

d2-src.7z (6.1 Mb)  -- everything except JLOAD (no srcs available, oops again)

d3-src.7z (8.0 MB) -- (never intended to be 100% open source but close enough)

d1-src.txt (224 Kb), d2-src.txt (279 Kb), d3-src.txt (236 Kb) -- archives' contents (date, size, name)

 

Eric Auer made a 2.88 MB .IMG version (also w/ individual files):    eric-rugxulo288.zip  (5.4 MB)

 

"BARE_DOS" 8086+/386+ FreeDOS image (Apr. 3, 2008; for flashing BIOS, minimal install, etc.):

(see MKBISO.ZIP , 16k, DOS .EXE makes .IMG into .ISO for CD-R; or maybe?? try MBOOTCD, w/ src)

bare_dos.zip  bare_dos.txt  (800k; 1.44 MB .IMG + DISKCOPY + SFX14436 + UNIMG) ... (old, FIXME!)

misc. FreeDOS kernels (fully replaces MSDOS.SYS+IO.SYS or IBMBIO.COM+IBMDOS.COM)

Mar. 8th ("fat security")  ke2008mar8-src.zip (taken from SVN)

ke2007sep15.zip | ke2007sep15-src.zip

ke2007jul21.zip | ke2007aug20.zip  | ke2007aug26.zip | ke2007sep07.zip

kernel2036-binary.zip | kernel2036-source.zip | krn2037b.zip | krn2037s.zip 

(Grab other kernels [2039, 2040, etc.] at the project's SourceForge.net site)

 

KWC38632.SYS -- FreeDOS kernel ("K") compiled by Watcom C ("WC") for "386" and FAT12/16/32 ("32")

KTC8616.SYS    -- FreeDOS kernel ("K") compiled by Turbo C ("TC") for 8086 ("86") and FAT12/16 ("16")

etc ...

 

FreeCom shell (command.com replacement, srcs only; or try 4DOS instead [8086!] ):

com084_s.tbz (186+ ??, 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap; handles LFNs, DESCRIPT.ION)

com082_s.zip (8086+, "stable" 0.82pl3, uses KSSF or VSPAWN via "call /s" to temporarily swap out)

 

P.S. Get 0.82pl3 binary here or 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap binary here.

If you need a pre-compiled SUPPL library for use with Turbo C/C++, get it here:  SUPPL.ZIP

DJGPP C compiler (July 19, 2010; for transport via 1.44 MB floppy, similar to old v1's EZ-GCC; DOS 32-bit only):

djgpp203.7z (main archive, needs either my tweaked DJGPPv2 or OW compile of 7ZDECODE from the LZMA SDK)

djgpp203.txt (readme / changes) dj203lst.txt (list of all files included; everything is 8.3 friendly!)

(uses djdev 2.03p2 "current" + gcc 2.95.3 [2001] + bnu 2.16.1 plus various misc. files, see archive's contents above)

This GCC supports -mcpu=pentiumpro  and -march=k6 , so 686+ CMOV.. are okay but nothing else (e.g. no 3dnow! or SSE or almost any C99 stuff).

Full sources:  

bnu2161s.tbz (9.2 MB), gcc2953s.tbz (8.3 MB), fil41s.tbz (1.3 MB), djlsr204.tbz (946k)

djlsr203.tbz (761k), mak3791s.tbz (751k), wmemu21s.tbz (62k), csdpmi7s.zip (86k)

xgrep103.zip (24k), ezedit20.zip (33k), d3x-090h.zip (122k), 7zdec912.zip (355k)

 

• used .tar.bz2 because DJTAR (2.04 only) supports it (even in-place decompression, which means you don't need to unpack the entire thing first), and it's better compression than .ZIP 
  • Yes, 7-Zip or UHarc is better, and PAQ8 or LPAQ is usually better still, but those are less friendly with LFNs, RAM, decompression speed, and free space, respectively; besides, you already have DJTAR (included in the toolchain), so might as well use it    ;-)
    
• all these srcs take 20+ MB of space, so I'm lucky it fits my Google Pages allotment !!
• pretty sure lib srcs and WMemu don't compile with latest GCCs (except maybe CVS versions ... but I haven't tried)
• didn't remove any redundant src files at all, even if I maybe would've liked to (actually much simpler for me not to), so there are some non-DOS srcs in there

 

• for comparison, if you want to try (-m486 only, circa 1997) GCC 2.7.2.3 (built with GCC 2.95.3 + DJGPP 2.03p2), the package (compiler proper only) is here:   
  • gcc2723b.zip  (585k)    gcc2723s.tbz (5.3 MB, full srcs)
• also, DJ's old, wimpy 16-bit .OBJ compiler hack using GCC 2.7.2.3, NASM, and DJLINK can be found pre-compiled with full patches and utils (except NASM) here:   dj16bit.zip  (694k)
• an old Linux libc5 cross compiler for DJGPP (GCC 2.7.2, BinUtils 2.7, DJDEV 2.00 ... not built by me!) can be found here:   http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/msdos/ 
• other interesting compilers for producing bound .EXEs (e.g. for more than one OS) are EMX (DOS + OS/2, e.g. FPC 1.0.10 for OS/2 used it) and RSXNT (DOS + Win32 using DJGPP) although hard to find some pieces and no longer updated 
• there's also some help (and downloads) for cross compiling on Cygwin for Linux (IA-32 and x86-64)
  

 

DOS-hosted MOSS target GCC w/ BinUtils + DOS extender + libs + target srcs

moss-dj.7z  (2.8 MB, needs LFNs and 13 MB of HD space to unpack)

• ELF-based "Mach on DOS", abandoned since 1996, buggy DPMI (e.g. hates WinXP)
• GCC dropped explicit support for it after 3.3.6, BinUtils 2.19 still has it though
  • I only rebuilt GCC 2.95.3 + BinUtils 2.16.1 (good / fast enough for basic C stuff)
    
  • note that I didn't (and couldn't) recompile MOSS.EXE itself, sadly
• uses Flux OS toolkit, parts of Mach4 OS, FreeBSD libs
• fully buildable with GPL tools (untested), extender itself is fully GPL
• old pre-built cross-compilers from Linux (libc5) and FreeBSD are available on FTP here
• written by Bryan Ford, used for Sleepless Software's DOS game: Inner Worlds (N.B. use DOSBox)
  
• some old discussion by me and Rod Pemberton on comp.os.msdos.djgpp here
• other ELF tools for DOS: Josh Vanderhoof's Cross ELF (old, buggy), Daniel Borca's DJELF (good)
  

 

OpenWatcom C compiler (also 1.44 MB, floppy-sized; DOS only [32-bit host / 16-bit targets]):

ow13-286.7z (oldie-but-goodie 1.3) | ow17a286.7z (1.7a RC1, see changes here)

(links to the main site):    ow_license.txt   /zips-1.3/   /archive/    /source/

(Note that the Sybase license 1.0 is OSI approved, but Debian and Fedora still call it "non-free", meh)

 

P.S. Here's my full DOS-only install:  open-watcom-c-dos-1.9.7z   (7 MB; 45 MB unpacked)

(OW 1.9, C/C++, includes all samples, startup srcs, extenders, tools, helpfiles; 386 DOS host)

 

etc. etc. etc. (recompiling stuff, mostly)

• DOS .BAT to compile UPX-UCL 3.07 with DJGPP 2.03p2/2.04
• DOS .BAT to compile NASM 2.08.01 (or older 2.07 or 2.05.01 or 2.02) via DJGPP 2.03p2/2.04
  • ( no ./configure or make required but needs C99 support, e.g. GCC 3.2.3 )
  • N.B. newer NASMs (e.g. 2.09.08) compile with openwcom.mak in real DOS (8.3 ftw!)
• makefile to compile old NASM 0.98.39 via CC386 (using its own imake)
• DOS .BAT to compile (old) FreeDOS edlin 2.10c via CC386 (no ./configure needed)
• DOS .BAT to compile TDE 5.1v via DJGPP (no Make needed)
• DJGPP 2.03p2 libc patch (DOSEXEC.C) for DR-DOS 6+ TaskMax/TaskMgr bg exec:  dosexec.dif
• (mainly intended for TDE, get a test binary compile w/ patches here:  tdep-dr.zip)
• this may be of questionable benefit as the DPMI server (required!) was buggy until 7.02
• DJGPP query_con_codepage func (a la mode con cp /status) for MS / FD / DR-DOS / Win9x
  
• included in Mined and Erwin's dos2unix, rejected by Gnulib
  
• DOS .BAT to patch ZILE 2.3.20 (or older 2.3.13 or 2.3.11) for DJGPP 2.03p2/2.04
• (still uses kludgy "./configure && make" ... quite slow but works)
• DJGPP has done so much but still falters on the complex build process (Autotools)   ;-(
  
• DOS .BAT to fix DJGPP compilation of Exuberant CTAGS 5.8
• DOS .BAT to compile EsCo 0.511 w/ DJGPP 2.04 (uses ./configure && make)
  
• grabs GNU getopt_long from BinUtils CVS via wget
• modified FreeBSD's getopt_long for use with DJGPP apps (e.g. EsCo)
• small patch for DJASM in DJGPP's CVS
• am I the only one who prefers 0A9h hex constants instead of 0xA9 ??
• DOS .BAT / Ruby script to convert decimal to or from base 7 numbers (for ETA)
• yes, Ruby 1.8.7 compiles with DJGPP (but not 1.9.2, sadly)
• DOS .BAT / DX-Forth script to convert decimal to base 7 (for comparison since it's trivial)
• DOS .BAT to compile Regina REXX 3.5 via DJGPP 2.03p2/2.04 (without bloated Watt-32)
• DOS .BAT to compile Regina REXX 3.5 via EMX (for dual DOS + OS/2 use)
• REXX script to touch a .gz file's external date with its internal *nix creation date
• not really ANSI portable but works with Regina and BRexx, so close enough
• DOS .BAT / debug script for FreeDOS touch 1.4.3 (or see my unofficial 1.4.4)
• allows -C to work on readonly files
• DOS .BAT to compile (old) ne 2.0.3 via DJGPP 2.03p2/2.04
• src diff + old .ZIP for NanoTech 3d engine for OW 1.9 (avoids closed src Varmint Audio Tools lib)
• since sound doesn't work very well anyways (except DOSBox), no huge loss
• .ASM src for 7-bit ASCII executable .COM (prints a string + exits, good for VMS configure.com)
• DOS .BAT to compile JED 0.99.19 (+ S-Lang 2.2.3) with DJGPP 2.04
• patch to paq8f to optionally use DJGPP .DXEs (if found) with .ASM (MMX/SSE2) speedups
  
• REXX script to (very) wimpily translate text to Brainf*** (also see BFD compiler)
• srcs to some old .ASM utils that I have no better place to host
  

• (... more coming eventually ...)
  

 

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