Hi!
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Alternative_Open_Watcom_distribution
Although there is no more official distribution of OpenWatcom as a
collection of .zip archives after OpenWatcom 1.3, you can download OW 1.7a
(1.7.1), and previous releases, as multiple zip files from ibiblio. These
archives are prepared by Arkady Belousov and placed on ibiblio by Jim Hall.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/openwatcom/1.7.1/
Here you will find archives with the same layout as the OW 1.3
distribution, including the files license.txt, readme.txt (short
introduction) and descript.ion (archives description file, compatible with
FAR Manager, NDOS and 4DOS).
Note that the either of the official installers (Windows or OS/2) can
be unzipped using standard unzip tools. However, this unofficial
distribution allows you to download a subset of the original packages which
may be easier for people with limited resources (low disk space or slow
network links).
Important addition into given alternative distribution is CLIB.7Z
archive, which includes sources for RTL (Run Time Library), not included
into original binary distribution. These sources are invaluable source of
information, which complements RTL documentation and may clarify all dark
questions, related to RTL. CLIB.7Z archive packed by portable free archiver
7-Zip [http://www.7-zip.org/], this reduces sources size to 800 kb versus
3.4 Mb of zip archive.
How might this distribution be useful? Suppose you only need the DOS
host and the DOS target. The only components you need are:
1. License and Descriptions, 3 files/~30 kb
LICENSE.TXT README.TXT DESCRIPT.ION
2. Base package, 6 archives/~2.6 Mb
CM_CORE_ALL.ZIP CM_CORE_DOS.ZIP CM_CORE_DOSWIN.ZIP
CORE_ALL.ZIP CORE_DOSWIN.ZIP
C_DOSWIN.ZIP
3. C++ addition to base package, 1 archive/~1.3 Mb
CPP_DOSWIN.ZIP
4. DOS extenders (may be downloaded all, one or nothing), 4 archives/~700 kb
EXT_CAUSEWAY.ZIP EXT_DOS32A.ZIP EXT_DOS4GW.ZIP EXT_PMODEW.ZIP
5. Debugger, 5 archives/~960 kb
CM_DBG_ALL.ZIP CM_DBG_DOS.ZIP
CM_DBG_DOSWIN.ZIP CM_DBG_DOSOS2.ZIP CM_DBG_MISC1.ZIP
6. C RTL (standard headers and libraries), 5 archives/~1.7 Mb
CM_CLIB_HDR.ZIP CM_CLIB_A16.ZIP CLIB_A16.ZIP
CM_CLIB_D16.ZIP CLIB_D16.ZIP
7. C RTL for DOS extenders, 2 archives/~620 kb
CM_CLIB_A32.ZIP
CM_CLIB_D32.ZIP
8. C++ RTL, 3 archives/~1.1 Mb
PLIB_HDR.ZIP CM_PLIB_A16.ZIP PLIB_A16.ZIP
9. C++ RTL for DOS extenders, 2 archives/~690 kb
CM_PLIB_A32.ZIP PLIB_A32.ZIP
10. Help files, 2 archives/~2.1 Мb
CM_HLP_DOS.ZIP HLP_DOS.ZIP
11. IDE, help and samples for IDE, 3 archives/~610 kb
CM_IDE_ALL.ZIP CM_IDE_DOS.ZIP IDE_SAMPLES.ZIP
12. Examples and RTL sources, 5 archives/~1.3 Mb
CM_SAMPLES.ZIP CLIB_SAMPLES.ZIP PLIB_SAMPLES.ZIP MISC_SRC.ZIP CLIB.7Z
The total is only 41 files, or 14 Mb. There is also a minimal set
(only C, no C++ / help / samples / debugger), which includes sets [2] and
[6] above, consisting of 11 files, or ~4.4 Mb. Now compare this with
original monolithic distribution size (62 Mb).
PS: NASM (Netwide assembler) [http://nasm.sf.net/] development was unfrozen
and recently was released NASM 2.02.
PPS: FASM (flat assembler) [http://flatassembler.net/] is also evolved and
latest edition is 1.67.26.
PPPS: Japheth forks OpenWatcom WASM [http://www.japheth.de/wasm.html] and
made some bugfixes and enhancements.
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