Rust on DOS via DOS/32A proof of concept https://ceionia.com/le-exe

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Rust on DOS proof of concept (DOS/32A)

this is a demo for using 32-bit Rust on DOS, just very basic. working on something a little bit bigger i might release.

works by producing a ELF binary via Rust, then using a proof of concept utility i wrote to convert the ELF to an LE executable, which DOS/32A can load.

needs the DOS/32A extender to run, compile normally with cargo build --release then use elf2le target/dos/release/rust-le-demo.elf (or whatever your path is) to produce a.exe in the working directory, new.elf will be overwritten as an intermediate by elf2le, sorry, it's bad code.

you can run the generated executable on DOS with dos32a a.exe.

under DOS, the sc or sb utilities provided by DOS/32A can add a stub to the LE executable, so that you don't need to start it via dos32a (sc can also compress it).

my elf2le utility can be found on my site: https://ceionia.com/git/lucia/elf2le or on github: https://github.com/LCeionia/elf2le

more about the project on my site: https://ceionia.com/le-exe

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