Openwatcom Wmake not creating FreeCOM config file about comcom64 HOT 11 CLOSED

Grr, while debugging a single instance
of comcom64 with gdb is a pleasant
experience, in this particular case make
spawns new instances, and the debugging
is becoming quite messy.
I probably need to add some switch to
comcom64 to optionally work within a
single instance, to simplify debugging...

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I think its a wmake bug.
It hooks int31 and doesn't chain back
the function 0xa00 (get vendor API).
Therefore comcom64 cannot load.

I can't find wmake sources. In ow2 tree
there are binaries!
So I give up.

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Ah, actually its a dos4gw bug!
If you copy dos32a instead of dos4gw,
then things work.

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So here's the fix:
set DOS4GPATH=c:\devel\watcomc\binw\dos32a.exe

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Thank you, that fixed the FreeCOM build test on FDPP/Comcom. It still fails on MS-DOS due to out of environment space (even though I increased it in stages all the way up to 4096), so for now I marked it as a known fail and will it be skipped. If you think that it's possible that Dosemu could be at fault I could investigate developing a simple test case, otherwise I'll just accept that it's broken and submit the PR as is?

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Does it work under any other emulator
or pc?

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Also is it only ms-dos, or any non-fdpp dos?

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You can also try freecom+ms-dos,
or comcom64+ms-dos.
Btw, I think it would be nice to have
the comcom64 CI tests running under
various DOSes.

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Also is it only ms-dos, or any non-fdpp dos?

It fails under MS-DOS 6.22 and DRDOS 7.01, but is okay with FreeDOS 1.3 and FDPP.

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Can you make a test-case?

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I'll try to do a DR-DOS one.

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