Hi all. I'm doing a small project to teach myself some C coding using DJGPP. So far I've gotten my development environment set up and I've written some simple code to get the VGA hardware to draw some stuff. I'm only targeting MSDOS and using DOSBox to test. 😀 (Though I can also compile outside of DOSBox, which is nice and fast.)

However, DOSBox doesn't have long filename support so I'm now getting an import error with a library file that's more than 8 characters long. So now I'm looking for a way to get long filenames, while sacrificing as little as possible of DOSBox's speed. I can probably install FreeDOS, or MSDOS 7. Are there any other ways? Or possibly patches that I can apply for a custom build?

I've tried to get DJGPP to work with short filenames but it doesn't seem to work for me, so enabling long filenames seems like the only option.

Thanks 😀