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Depending on the format there are some additional steps required to get extra functionality specific to this format.
Open Watcom compiler has possibility of crossplatform building for many platforms. MS Windows binaries are the most common used output of this compiler but it has also possibility of building for DOS, OS/2 and other operating systems. Because of that by default watcom makefiles are outputed with settings for building windows binaries. This default setting can be changed by defining additional platform variable.
# generate makefile.wat dedicated to windows development bakefile file.bkl -f watcom # generate makefile.wat dedicated to DOS development in extended 32-bit mode bakefile file.bkl -f watcom -DPLATFORM_MSDOS=1 # generate makefile.wat dedicated to OS/2 development bakefile file.bkl -f watcom -DPLATFORM_OS2=1
Only 32-bit DOS mode with dedicated extender is supported. Generated
makefile contains additional DOS32
variable which
points to desired extender. Expected values: X32VM
,
X32
, PMODEW
,
CAUSEWAY
, DOS32A
and default
DOS4GW
.