not working in ms-dos 6.22?

[pauloscouser]

i've written a program that i'm quite proud of but would like to be able to run it on a friends machine with ms-dos 6.22, but don't know how to convert/alter the code to do this? any hints?

 

[Kalisto]

It depends on what your code uses, does it include any of the windows libraries, or use certain advanced types ?

Without knowing more about how the code is written it's hard to say, but I'd guess that you might be easier creating a new application, and writing it on your firends machine to be sure it works...

 

[JOLESEN]

It should run if you build it with a compiler that supports the target OS.

/JOlesen

 

[pauloscouser]

the program uses windows.h header file

 

[CodingNovice]

Then it is a windows program or probably more correctly described as a windows console program. To build for true DOS you need a compiler like DJGPP and you will need to use the regs union and call interrupts as that was the DOS API.

 

[pauloscouser]

hmmmm is it not possible at all to write applications for ms-dos using visual c++ 6.0, or will they all be windows based?

 

[CodingNovice]

No. DOS support was dropped in MSVC4 or 5. MSVC is a windows compiler. It is really only suitable for windows targets.