🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <371@townleyc.win-uk.net> townleyc@townleyc.win-uk.net (Chris Townley) writes:

> Having been playing around with OS/2 for some time, I got a copy
> earlier in the year, of a GCC2 environment (2.6.3 I think) which, despite
> a lack of accurate doc's, seems to work OK. I particularly like the
> quick PMIO routines for an easy route to producing simple PM apps.

I used it too, some time ago.

> However, I am missing various utilites, including a debugger etc, and I
> now cannot find any reference to GCC2. I have looked at the emx+gcc
> areas, but this seems not to be the same beast.

I used both EMX and GCC/2 for a little while, and they are different.
They're based on the same programming effort, however, which is the GNU Project
based at MIT in the United States.  "gcc" is the GNU Project's C compiler
which has been ported to many architectures, including OS/2.  However, it's
mainly intended for UNIX-like systems.

I got GCC/2 and EMX from the ftp.cdrom.com site, the people who put out the
big "Hobbes" OS/2 CD-ROM.  Check at their site in /pub/os2/lang to see what
is available.  If someone has done some porting to OS/2 of the GNU Project's
work, it would likely be there.  You might want to consider using EMX because
it struck me as a more complete development system, as opposed to GCC/2.

> I have also seen
> reference to GNU being able to be run in DOS as well as other platforms,
> which would be nice - my DOS C compiler is an ancient offering (Mix
> Power C)

Look around the FTP sites for a program named DJGPP.  It's "gcc" ported to
the MS-DOS world.

-- Paul

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul R. Hart                                Computer Systems Administrator 
paul@ee.byu.edu                        Electrical and Computer Engineering
(801) 378-5728                       Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah