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    From mutazilah@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 11 11:04:29 2021
    I've tested this code as a standalone executable
    built with tasm+tlink, and it all looks fine, but does
    anyone know if there is anything technically wrong
    with it, as I'm not familiar with the requirements of
    a stub.

    Thanks. Paul.



    ; needpdos.asm - stub for Win32 executables
    ;
    ; This program written by Paul Edwards
    ; Released to the public domain

    .model tiny

    _DATA segment word public 'DATA'
    msg db "Please install HX or upgrade to PDOS/386 or Wine etc etc$"
    _DATA ends
    _BSS segment word public 'BSS'
    _BSS ends
    _STACK segment word stack 'STACK'
    db 1000h dup(?)
    _STACK ends

    DGROUP group _DATA,_BSS
    assume cs:_TEXT,ds:DGROUP

    _TEXT segment word public 'CODE'

    top:

    ___intstart proc

    mov dx,DGROUP
    mov ds,dx

    mov ah,09h
    mov dx,offset msg
    int 21h

    mov al,0
    mov ah,4ch
    int 21h ; terminate

    ret

    ___intstart endp


    _TEXT ends

    end top

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  • From mutazilah@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 11 18:22:28 2021
    I have answered my own question:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/src/needpdos.asm

    BFN. Paul.

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  • From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 12 10:01:42 2021
    Paul,

    does anyone know if there is anything technically wrong
    with it, as I'm not familiar with the requirements of a stub.

    Borlands tlink32 uses "bin\winstub.exe" as the default stub. A quick peek into that file (using debug.exe)doesn't show anything special. A boring
    old minimal DOS executable is more like it. :-)

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser

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