Subj : Open Watcom compiler
To : David Noon
From : Sarah Nunez
Date : Fri Jul 19 2002 11:45 pm
SN>> Ahhh. . . I installed the OS/2 host stuff, not the Win16 host
SN>> stuff. Do I need the hosting files for all platform hosts?
DN> I don't think so. The Win16 files account for most of the IDE's
DN> configuration, including most of the OS/2 and Win32 IDEs'
DN> configurations. I think Watcom perceived Win16 as the lowest common
DN> denominator, and put the bulk of the common configuration data there.
Well, none of the ide*.cfg files are in the Win16 IDE zip files. That seems to
be the key that I'm missing.
DN> So, you should have a fairly substantial BINP directory, a smallish
DN> BINW directory and little or no BINNT directory.
I have exactly two files in the BINW directory: wcl.exe and wcl386.exe. Those
are the only ones that came on the zip files for OS/2 host and all targets that
are designated for that directory.
DN> The only IBM-burnt CDs I have to hand are for MCP2. The installation
DN> program on those is x:\TOOLKIT\TKINSTAL.EXE, where "x" is your CD-ROM
DN> drive.
Well, my Warp CDs just got buried the other day by a mountain of boxes. (The
movers delivered our furniture and other household goods from storage on
Tuesday, and my apartment looks like a warehouse.) I'll have to look again at
the CDs once I unbury them. (I can see them--I just can't get to them.)
DN> It is getting there. Object methods are even more fragmented than
DN> conventional (i.e. FORTRAN-style) modular programming.
Perhaps I'll have a better understanding once I get to the C++ tutorial.
DN> Start at
http://www.wxwindows.org/ and choose whichever
DN> implementations you need: OS/2, Win32, X11 (LINUX and *BSD), MacOS,
DN> whatever.
The only OS/2 downloads I found are via CSV, which I'm still trying to make
sense of. (I did download an OS/2 CSV client or whatever the term is.) I
emailed David Webster, who indicated that the whole shooting match (all
platforms, perhaps? can I even select only OS/2?) runs about 100Mb. There's
no way on God's green earth I can download 100Mb of stuff, especially without
some sort of resume feature. I have a 56Kbps modem and my ISP limits me to
four hours per session. There is an available CD-ROM, but from the description
it appears that the OS/2 implementation of wxWindows is NOT on the CD-ROM. I
wish I could just ftp what I need and be done with it.
Sarah
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