From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-03-14T11:22:28+09:00
Subject: RE: Open Watcom

Stephen,

This is excellent news.  I appreciate your corrections.

I was just going off of what I found on the site.

Looking forward to OpenWatcom 1.0.

-Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Howe [mailto:SPAMstephen.howeGUARD@tnsofres.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:44 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Open Watcom
> 
> 
> news:DKEMKMBKGIAIEKKBJOPOKEIFCGAA.rich@infoether.com...
> > My only concern with with this from their readme file:
> >
> > "The Windows SDK components and Microsoft Foundation Classes are not
> > included in the 11.0c update. If you wish to do Windows programming you
> are
> > required to have a prior version of Watcom C/C++ 11.0, 
> especially for MFC
> > support. Watcom C/C++ 10.6 may work, but this has not been tested."
> >
> > Seems like they are phasing out (shipping) support for win32 APIs.
> 
> Not at all. We can't ship any 3rd-party files that are not 100% owned by
> Sybase.
> 11.0c is just an upgrade for 11.0, 11.0a, 11.0b owners.
> Having said that, out-of-the-box you can build 16-bit DOS targets
> And if you look at the OpenWatcom newsgroup, you will find that those
> without 11.0, 11.0a, 11.0b have managed to build 32-bit DOS, 
> 32-bit OS/2 and
> Win32 programs after a few hurdles to overcome.
> 
> It is OpenWatcom 1.0 that we are planning to overcome the hurdles so that
> out-of-the-box all the targets can be built but of course, legally.
> 
> > So whereas this compiler should work to build Ruby it will not directly
> > support the building of Win32 extensions that leverage the 
> Win32 API set.
> 
> If you download the Microsoft Platform SDK, I know of people that 
> are having
> no problems producing Win32 programs
> 
> Stephen Howe [TeamSybase], also OpenWatcom developer
> 
> 
>