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- From: faye@fe-line.demon.co.uk (Faye Pearson)
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- Subject: Re: Shareware C compiler ???
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:05:29 GMT
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- Glynnis Rengger <grengger@icis.on.ca> wrote:
-
- >Is there a shareware compiler? If you know of one, please tell me
- >where I can find it.
-
- If you have OS/2 (I think there is a port to straight DOS too) you
- might like to try EMX 0.9a
- It is a unix emulator which comes as part of an OS/2 port of GNU/BSD
- C/C++ and Objective C compilers.
-
- It is FREEWARE! and can compile 32bit applications for DOS, OS/2 text
- and OS/2 PM. (although there is no documentation for PM included)
- single/multithread applications etc.
-
- I think it is on ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/os2/lang/emx09a/
- (These are the OS/2 binaries)
-
- advantages are that it makes it easy to port un*x applications to a PC
- platform, at a surprisingly small overhead - DLLs are utilised to
- minimise memory/binary size overheads.
-
- The readme file will give a larger list of FTP sites if you need one
- closer to home and a full list of archives. (hopefully including the
- msdos versions of the compiler)
-
- Anyone know if there is a straight DOS port for certain?
-
- Faye
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