I'm trying to build flashrom 0.9.6 for dos on Ubuntu 14.04 I'm working from Downloads folder. Under Downloads/ I have 5 sub-directories:
Downloads/
libpci/
pciutils-3.1.5/
zlib1.2.11/
libgetopt/
flashrom-0.9.6/
libpci/ is LIBS_BASE. I've installed the .deb packages of djcross-binutils, djcross-gcc, djcross-gcc-tools and djcrx. libgetopt is compiled using make and copied getopt.h to libpci/include and libgetopt.a to libpci/lib. From zlib-1.2.11/ : ./configure, make HOST=i386-djgpp-djgpp CROSS_COMPILE=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-, make HOST=i386-djgpp-djgpp CROSS_COMPILE=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp- PREFIX=/ DESTDIR=$PWD/../libpci install. But it didn't install under libpci/ but libpci/usr/local So by copy-pasting I brought zlib install back under libpci/.From pciutils-3.1.5/ I entered: make, make ZLIB=yes DNS=yes HOST=i386-djgpp-djgpp CROSS_COMPILE=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp- PREFIX=/ DESTDIR=$PWD/../libpci install install-lib. But there was no libpci.so inside libpci/lib. So I copied the one from Ubuntu into libpci/lib. 'Cause thru my trials I understood that file is needed. Then from flashrom-0.9.6/, make CC=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc LIBS_BASE=../libpci On Checking if lipci is present and sufficient...no Checking if libpci+zlib are present and sufficient...no ,compilation halted. From libpci/ ,I renamed include/ or include/pci and flashrom couldn't locate the header files anymore, same when changing their location down to libpci/include . So flashrom is pointing at a certain path to find the files it needs. I have all the 3 (besides the headers) files of libpci under libpci/lib: libpci.a, libpci.so and libpci.pc .I tried thru reading the makefile and the header files to find what could help me know the required path for these libpci files so flashrom can find them, so far to no avail. I hope someone here can help me get the correct path under libpci/lib. Else I think I could find that out with a debugger. But I don't know which one and how to use it yet. Your input is welcome.
Etonam

Personally I doubt the wisdom of putting huge effort into this.


The foundation stone of DOS was a 16 bit bus, and 640k memory. The CPUs had extra address bus lines, and these were conscripted as digital I/O (notably A20), and upgrading/expansion was designed OUT in the silicon. DOS ran happily there - like the Stone Age of computing.


So why build a further complicated mess of software to support running some little POS software from the Stone Age?

There is a good reason for using DOS for flashing. It uses few resources and therefore runs little risk of the flash interfering with running processes. I would always use the least resource usage program I could to flash things.

any reason you are not using the packagemanager ?
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashrom

Reread my POST