Subj : Open Watcom compiler
To : Sarah Nunez
From : David Noon
Date : Sun Jul 21 2002 07:39 pm
Hi Sarah,
Replying to a message of Sarah Nunez to David Noon:
SN> Well, none of the ide*.cfg files are in the Win16 IDE zip files. That
SN> seems to be the key that I'm missing.
It sure seems to be the basic problem.
DN>> So, you should have a fairly substantial BINP directory, a smallish
DN>> BINW directory and little or no BINNT directory.
SN> I have exactly two files in the BINW directory: wcl.exe and
SN> wcl386.exe. Those are the only ones that came on the zip files for
SN> OS/2 host and all targets that are designated for that directory.
Ok. I'll zip up the configuration files from my BINW directory and e-mail them
to you.
SN> Well, my Warp CDs just got buried the other day by a mountain of
SN> boxes.
Well, George said he couldn't find it, so you perhaps need WSeB or later.
[George, did you check the BonusPak CD too?]
DN>> It is getting there. Object methods are even more fragmented than
DN>> conventional (i.e. FORTRAN-style) modular programming.
SN> Perhaps I'll have a better understanding once I get to the C++
SN> tutorial.
It is quite simple: in FORTRAN and all "procedural" languages, subroutines and
functions are either wholly public or wholly private. In OO languages, a method
is owned by a class of data, so for most method calls you need an instance of
that class in order to call the method. This means that if two or more classes
need to have the same functionality you end up coding the same stuff twice or
more. Well, not really. You end up coding methods for each class, each of which
calls some other, abstracted function that implements the common parts. This
means that one FORTRAN subroutine can become a multitude of much smaller C++
methods.
There are ways to ameliorate this to some extent, but they often make the
design seem more complicated.
DN>> Start at
http://www.wxwindows.org/ and choose whichever
DN>> implementations you need: OS/2, Win32, X11 (LINUX and *BSD), MacOS,
DN>> whatever.
SN> The only OS/2 downloads I found are via CSV, which I'm still trying to
SN> make sense of.
Ah. I have am IBM-written PDF document somewhere that is a tutorial on CSV. I
shall include it in the e-mail with the Watcom configuration files. Do you have
Acrobat or GSView? If neither I suggest you find a copy of Acrobat/2, as most
of IBM's newer doco is distributed in PDF format.
SN> I wish I could just ftp what I need and be done with it.
I have been considering building a Watcom-hosted implementation of wxOS2 and
uploading it to Hobbes, perhaps sending it down the OS/2 filebone as well.
Since both you and Mike Luther have expressed interest (and I expect there are
some interested lurkers, too) this could be something useful for me to do in
the next few weeks. Watch this space.
Regards
Dave
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