Re: dosemu and accessibility

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

Have we got any disadvantages building for an i386 system if this and what
it builds will most of the time be running on faster hardware than i386?
If there's no disadvantages, I'll go with the default.



On Sun, 2 May 2021, stsp wrote:

> 02.05.2021 21:23, Jude DaShiell ?????:
> > Slint findings.  For those that don't know, slint is the international
> > version of slackware and has had considerable accessibility upgrades done
> > to it by its maintainer Didier Spaier.
> > Findings, most of dosemu2 will build.  The show stopper is comcom32 and
> > why that is is recipe for command.o fails to build.
>
> This is indeed a show-stopper most of
> the time. You need djgpp to build it,
> which is a great pain to build by itself.
> You can try djgpp from here:
> https://github.com/jwt27/build-gcc
> or from here:
> https://github.com/stsp/build-gcc
> Maybe one of these will build.
> But the common suggestion so far,
> is to put the pre-built comcom32.exe
> to its source dir, and do "make install",
> pretending as if it was built.
>
>
> > The dosemu2 run process crashed since it didn't have comcom32 or freecom
>
> It shouldn't crash because of that.
> There might be other errors too, if
> it did.
>
>
> > and it complained about several packages being too old.
>
> It might be telling you that soundfonts
> are not installed, in addition to fluidsynth
> being too old. Installing soundfonts should
> fix that.
>
>