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From: Marcel Müller
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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