Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:09:53 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: El GrinGo <riad AT watson DOT ibm DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GCC for os2 ?
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, El GrinGo wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if GCC for OS/2 exists (like DJGPP for dos)
> If yes, i couldn't find a trace of it.
> 
> Thanks for Help. Riad
> 

There's something called EMX-GCC (look on the Hobbes OS/2 archive for
more). It's the GCC compiler, drivers, plus a large DLL which emulates the
Unix libc. If you have TCP/IP support in your OS/2 and you get a modified
EMX runtime DLL, you even get Berkeley socket I/O. I really would try this
myself, but I use Unix these days.

IMHO though OS/2 with EMX-GCC is a creditable platform; the public-domain
Korn shell compiles on it out of the box, there's an XFree86 port to the
PM, and the kernel is a multithreaded design. 


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