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I have tried to reduce the number of external tools, but when looking back it seems I were not very successful. At least I managed to get everything working with the native CMD.EXE shell only. However, there is still plenty of software required. Most of this software is available from hobbes.nmsu.edu or ftp.leo.org via anonymous FTP. The following shopping list shows what you will need:

If there is no version number given, any new version will do. Particularly critical is only EMX/gcc and GNU make. Note that the second GCC implementation which might still be available from some archives is NOT compatible.

Furthermore, you need the X11R6.1 and XFree86 sources. At this moment, I cannot say anything about the file names to obtain, because things are currently in the flow. The X Consortium is about to publish an update to X11R6, named X11R6.1 (cynics call this "X11'95" :-) ); I don't know whether a patch or an entirely new version will be issued. The public XFree86 sources will likely be called XFree86-3.2.tar.gz; for sources for the alpha version XFree86/OS2 3.1.2D you must become a member of XFree86.

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