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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« Last post by Andi B. on February 20, 2026, 09:37:32 am »
I'm sorry from now if going to write something useless for such scope; is that much away from sharing folders by samba between Linux and OS2 ? That's beacuse it is normally possible  that way between OS2 guest Virtualbox and Linux host. Of course not talking about Virtualbox Shared folder feature
I want to put in different >xTB JFS backup drives full with OS/2 stuff into my Linux box and copy some/all files over. Copying millions of files >1TB is no fun over Samba. Mind our samba isn't the fastest and not the most stable too.

Thanks CaIYY -
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sudo chmod 0774 /media/device-name
Will test this next time.

Btw. I also learned that rsync to samba share on NAS is much faster on Linux than on OS/2. Also much faster than with Win -> USB3.
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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 20, 2026, 01:36:23 am »
OK, got pissed off chasing a libiconv package so downloaded the source and installed it in /usr/local, remembered to run sudo ldconfig and,
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ (GCC) 9.2.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Have to play with it later and look up cross-compiling.

Edit: Now I get,
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/home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-pc-os2-emx/9/cc1: error while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looks like libmpfr.so.4 is old and no package available. Have to build version 3 by the looks of it. Current is 4.2.2
Edit2: Ok, built a simple C program using configure and it runs on OS/2, both with -Zomf and without.
Test G++ next.
BTW, used,
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export CC=i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc
./configure --host=i686-pc-os2-emx --build=x86_64-linux-gnu LDFLAGS=-Zomf
Edit3: g++ also worked fine.
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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 20, 2026, 01:02:44 am »
OK, seems mc screwed up the untar. Running from the command line seems to have properly worked.
Now seems I have the wrong libiconv
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
i686-pc-os2-emx-g++: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
And I don't seem to have iconv installed,
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ sudo apt install iconv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package iconv is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'iconv' has no installation candidate
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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 20, 2026, 12:15:59 am »
Downloaded the latest tar.xv and untarred it under ~ Trying simple commands fail,
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ export PATH=~/opt/os2emx/bin:$PATH
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc --version
bash: /home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
bash: /home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/i686-pc-os2-emx-g++: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ echo $PATH
/home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin:/home/dave/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
ls -la does show the files with the x bit set.

Edit: This is current Linux Mint
Edit2:
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~/opt/os2emx/bin$ file i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc
i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
and looking at the file, it does look like the exe tarred with ustar by komh.
I'll try different untar commands and/or installing ustar
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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 19, 2026, 10:31:44 pm »
Hi mauro, it is like giving a partition a drive letter on OS/2. Linux has a JFS (and HPFS) driver so mounting an OS/2 JFS volume gives you direct access to the file system without any overhead like Samba or shared folders.
Can even do fsck (chkdsk) on the file system which can be handy.
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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« Last post by KO Myung-Hun on February 19, 2026, 07:36:05 pm »
@Martin: As Mentore and Jochen said, it's possible to overcome 4GB memory problem of 32-bit OS/2 with this cross compiler, and to utilize various development environments of Linux.
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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« Last post by KO Myung-Hun on February 19, 2026, 07:32:14 pm »
Hi/2.

Here is the second test version:

https://www.os2.kr/komh/testcase/os2emx-cross-toolchain-test2.tar.xz

Added support of emxomf tools such as emxomf, emxomfar, emxomfld, emxomfstrip, listomf and stripomf.
Added support of -Zomf option with watcom tools such as wlink and wrc.
Fixed directory hierachy problem.

KO Myung-Hun
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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« Last post by mauro on February 19, 2026, 07:11:40 pm »
I'm sorry from now if going to write something useless for such scope; is that much away from sharing folders by samba between Linux and OS2 ? That's beacuse it is normally possible  that way between OS2 guest Virtualbox and Linux host. Of course not talking about Virtualbox Shared folder feature
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 19, 2026, 04:41:22 pm »
It should compile on OS/2, it uses UXP, the Gecko fork that PaleMoon uses. PaleMoon itself should compile on OS/2 but it would take a lot of porting. We do have the widgets etc from Gecko (Firefox) but it would be quite a bit of work from someone knowledgeable. And that's the problem, an interested programmer with a lot of time.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on February 19, 2026, 04:29:30 pm »
Hello

It is the first time I hear about IceApe. It is mentioned that IceApe is based in SeaMonkey.

Win32 - Version 1.8 : https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild

I see references to Iceape 2.7  - https://user-agents.net/browsers/iceape/versions/2-7
But I can not found the source code.

I would need something with more knowledge on this area to know if IceApe is compilable under/for ArcaOS.

Regards
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