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Programming / Re: Compiling PM app on 2016.
« on: July 26, 2016, 05:17:48 am »
Martin
If you are serious about helping to maintain or port software I think you need to install Open Watcom for maintaining OS/2 software and need GCC for porting. Open Watcom has been forked. There is a 2.0 version of the fork that has an OS/2 version but that version doesn't contain the latest OX/2 code. The unforked version is still at 1.9 which lacks Steve Levine's debug and high memory updates and lacks wipfc. I would recommend you install the unforked 1.9 and highly recommend if you or anyone else is interested I have a build of the latest code which I can provide as a zip file you can unzip over the i1.9 install.
As for GCC, Paul Smedley offers a copy of his build environment for a small donation either by mail on a DVD or via download (note it is huge). This gives you a very complete environment. If you want to stick with what is available from yum. You should also download the open watcom linker (on the netlabs rpm site) and make sure GCC is setup to use it as the linker (it is the most capable and advanced linker that runs on OS/2). Obviously if you get the latest Open Watcom from me you can forgo the download and just use the OW linker (wl) from the OW install.
If you are serious about helping to maintain or port software I think you need to install Open Watcom for maintaining OS/2 software and need GCC for porting. Open Watcom has been forked. There is a 2.0 version of the fork that has an OS/2 version but that version doesn't contain the latest OX/2 code. The unforked version is still at 1.9 which lacks Steve Levine's debug and high memory updates and lacks wipfc. I would recommend you install the unforked 1.9 and highly recommend if you or anyone else is interested I have a build of the latest code which I can provide as a zip file you can unzip over the i1.9 install.
As for GCC, Paul Smedley offers a copy of his build environment for a small donation either by mail on a DVD or via download (note it is huge). This gives you a very complete environment. If you want to stick with what is available from yum. You should also download the open watcom linker (on the netlabs rpm site) and make sure GCC is setup to use it as the linker (it is the most capable and advanced linker that runs on OS/2). Obviously if you get the latest Open Watcom from me you can forgo the download and just use the OW linker (wl) from the OW install.