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Re: best os2 version for development?

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Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> Hello os2 professionals! What os2 version is best for development? I mean,
> what os2 is most stable and has a good choice of compilers debuggers
> etc. for my personal use. I just want to learn abit I dont plan to do
> commerical software with it and I dont like windows very much....TIA

 From the language view gcc is by far the best. There are 3.3.5 and 
4.somewhat builds available.

 From the IDE side. Forget it. No OS/2 IDE can beat any modern 
development environment. But if you are not strictly restricted to OS/2 
you could run Eclipse CDT e.g. in a Linux VM and do all the compiling 
with OS/2. Of course, the other way around (OS/2 in the VM) will also work.
Eclipse CDT understands the OS/2 Toolkit files if you set up the include 
path correctly and provides superior development support also to OS/2 
programmers. Unfortunately the underlying GUI library and the recent 
Java Versions are not available for OS/2, so Eclipse won't run native 
within OS/2.

If you need a debugger, you have the choice between IBM icsdebug, 
icsdebug and maybe watcom. The latter looks not too pretty but is 
functional. The good news is, icsdebug works with gcc almost flawlessly. 
The bad news: it is not freeware.


For all software I mentioned so far any OS/2 version with latest 
Fixpacks from Warp4 up will perform as well. This also includes 
eComStation, at least up to 1.2R.

The most important restriction is currently the hardware support. 
Especially recent graphics hardware is not really supported. Panorama is 
at best a compromise. This could be a motivation to put OS/2 into a VM. 
Inside the VM the OS/2 version does not count that much. All versions I 
mentioned will work fine.


Marcel

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best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-12 16:34 +0200
  Re: best os2 version for development? Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> - 2011-04-12 19:15 -0400
    Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-14 09:01 +0200
  Re: best os2 version for development? Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-04-13 00:26 +0100
    Re: best os2 version for development? Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-12 22:05 -0600
      Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-14 00:31 +0200
    Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-13 22:33 +0200
      Re: best os2 version for development? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 16:13 -0700
        Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-14 20:41 +0200
      Re: best os2 version for development? Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-14 11:25 -0600
        Re: best os2 version for development? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-04-20 20:03 +0100
          Re: best os2 version for development? Andreas Kohl <ak0120@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 21:54 +0200
      Re: best os2 version for development? Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-14 11:25 -0600
  Re: best os2 version for development? Andreas Kohl <ak@akohl.net> - 2011-04-13 20:46 +0200
    Re: best os2 version for development? Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-13 14:29 -0600
      Re: best os2 version for development? Andreas Kohl <ak0120@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 14:29 +0200
        Re: best os2 version for development? Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> - 2011-04-14 15:47 -0400
          Re: best os2 version for development? "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-04-17 03:22 -0500
    Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-14 09:01 +0200
      Re: best os2 version for development? Andreas Kohl <ak0120@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 14:15 +0200
        Re: best os2 version for development? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.com> - 2011-04-14 15:54 +0200
  Re: best os2 version for development? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.com> - 2011-04-14 19:13 +0200
    Re: best os2 version for development? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 15:16 -0700

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