Hi
I want to compile (just compile) some basic examples of the OS/2 PM Programming book from Charles Petzold, but I was wondering on which tools to compile it. It is the most basic example that does not do anything called
W.C.
The C sample came with the MAK file for IBM C Dev Workset/2 (icc) and Borland C++ (bcc), but I would not want to use them since they are too old. I will like to ask (in my complete ignorance about this topic) which should be the modern way to compile a PM application? which are the tools that I should install to compile PM source code trying to be focused on open source tools and non-dead compilers if possible.... or the only way is to use an old IBM-unsupported compiler?
My other question is if a similar environment of Paul's Dev can be installed using ANPM (or RPM/YUM) because I don't want to have some conflicts with files, can the full dev environment can be installed with RPM/YUM? or does the netlabs repo may be missing some tools? If it is possible I will like to have the list of package required to be installed.
According to the text I will have to use, MAKE or NMAKE, ICC or BCC and LINK386 or TLINK, but I will like to use open source ones if it is possible. My guess is I can use GNU MAKE, GCC but no idea what is the open source linker, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Please notice this will be my first try to compile something on OS/2, I simple don't know much about it.
Regards
Update: Added link for the
W.C sample.