Hi andrew.

09-Jan-03 21:04:28, andrew clarke wrote to Jasen Betts


 ac> 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.

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

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

 >> www.delorie.org should have a link.

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

you're right it's .com not .org, last time I was there he had links to other
ports of GCC for windows and os/2 etc.  actually everything was a link as
his site was running over a dial-up link.

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