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to: Jasen Betts
from: andrew clarke
date: 2003-01-09 21:04:28
subject: OS/2 C compiler?

Mon 2003-01-06 07:05, Jasen Betts (3:640/1042) wrote to John Donohue:

 > EMX (which is GCC) is one AFAIK, it should still be available, free.

 > It's slow at compiling (too many features) but the stuff it produces 
 > has reasonable speed.

 > It's GCC so it'll make porting unix stuff easier.

 > AFAIK you can compile commerical stuff with it if you want to.

 > on the down side the documentation will probably be in an info tree, 
 > and the info reader takes a bit of figuring out.

The important stuff is in OS/2 .INF file format for use with VIEW or
INFVIEW, eg. emxview.zip:

1998-12-21   5:30p         22,028  emxbook.ndx
1998-12-21   5:29p        122,526  emxdev.inf
1998-12-21   5:30p          1,024  emxdev.ndx
1998-12-21   5:30p        585,849  emxlib.inf
1998-12-21   5:30p         19,043  emxlib.ndx

 > www.delorie.org should have a link.

http://www.delorie.com/  That's for DJGPP (32-bit DOS) though, not EMX.

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