Subj : OpenXP
To   : Ogg
From : Oli
Date : Sun Sep 12 2021 07:57 am

Ogg wrote (2021-09-11):

 O> Hello Oli!

 O> ** On Saturday 11.09.21 - 19:24, Oli wrote to acn:

 O>> Is downloaded OpenXP and tried to compile it on my Raspi,
 O>> which didn't work out of the box. Is there anything that
 O>> would make a port hard to achieve? It's FreePascal, little
 O>> endian, 32 bit. There was some assembler, but I don't know
 O>> how much of it is non-optional and needs to be ported to
 O>> Pascal.

 O> There is an extra library that is needed for the compilation to
 O> work.  I forget the details. I'll ask around.

For compiling you need the Indy library.

The first compilation error is this one:

Compiling xp_uue.pas
xp_uue.pas(153,16) Error: Unknown identifier "EBX"
xp_uue.pas(154,16) Error: Unknown identifier "ESI"
xp_uue.pas(155,16) Error: Unknown identifier "EDI"
xp_uue.pas(156,11) Error: Unrecognized opcode lea
xp_uue.pas(156,15) Error: Assembler syntax error
xp_uue.pas(157,18) Error: Unknown identifier "EBX"
xp_uue.pas(157,20) Error: Assembler syntax error in operand
xp_uue.pas(157,37) Fatal: Syntax error, "register" expected but "identifier" found
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/bin/ppcarm returned an error exitcode

The funny part is that someone ported it from 32 to 64 bit (and maybe from 16 bit before). No idea why they didn't write that part in Pascal. I doubt that the speed difference is significant anymore.

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