[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Please package virtualbox 4.2.2

[Frank Mehnert]

It is correct that we switched from bcc to Open Watcom to compile
the PC BIOS as well as the VGA BIOS. The reason is indeed that bcc
is unmaintained since years, has many bugs and creates code which
is far away from being optimized. And we didn't find an appropriate
alternative to Open Watcom.

But it is not true that Open Watcom is required to build the BIOS
of VirtualBox. If Open Watcom is not available, an alternative Assembler
file can be used to create the BIOS. See here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/BiosCommonCode

Kind regards,

Frank
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