Yup, they finally did it. The source is being released in bits and drabs... the first chunk is pure source code, almost 29meg compressed. Free for the taking at ftp://ftp.watcom.org/watcom/openwatcom... I saw the announcement in Linux Announce usenet group... here's the text From: Kendall Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: ANN: Open Watcom 0.8.0 source code release! Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:06:07 CST Organization: SciTech Software, Inc. X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 Hi All, Today is a great day! We have just uploaded the first source code archive release of the Open Watcom Project! We have called this version of the code the 0.8.0 release, since we can't consider it the 1.0 release until all the code is there and it can compile with the Watcom 11.0c compiler. To date nearly all of the code under the \bld directory is there, along with batch files to set up build environments for Windows and OS/2 machines. Some stuff is missing (noteably all the Fortran source code), but it will be committed to the Open Watcom tree over the next few weeks. Also some source files could well have been broken during the process of attaching the Open Watcom project copyright header information. If you find any broken files, please let us know! Also although you cannot simply run a full build right now, you can pretty much go into any directory and run 'wmake' with the 11.0c compiler installed on your machine (once you copy edit the \setvars.bat file of course!) on most projects and they will build. Naturally there are many dependencies on libraries etc, but it is easy enough to see which library it is requiring, CD to that directory and run wmake in that directory also. Eventually of course we will have the full build system working so that you can just say 'go' and it will all build ;-) But the good news is that the source code has arrived! This is a *HUGE* amount of source code that has been released. This ZIP files contains over 18,000 source code files totalling nearly 78MB of just source code (no binaries!). It compresses down to about 28MB for the current ZIP file archive, and includes source code for so many things it would be difficult to list them all (just think, compiler, linker, assembler, editor, IDE, debugger, POSIX command line tools and much more!). Also note that included is full source code to the DEC Alpha compiler, which we built and quickly tested a week or so ago and it produced working code that ran under Windows NT 4.0 on a DEC Alpha machine ;-) For more information see: http://www.openwatcom.org ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/watcom/openwatcom Remember, this is a *LOT* of source code. If you are not willing to get your hands dirty figuring things out for yourself, don't bother downloading the code. We can't answer 50,000 emails about how to compiler Open Watcom, and won't. So use at your own risk. But most of all: ENJOY!! Note: We have to extend a big thank you to Sybase and the people at Sybase that worked diligently with us over the years to finally make Open Watcom a reality. They know who they are, so "Thanks guys!". -- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! -- ************************************************************************* ***** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=linux 10:56pm up 67 days, 4:09, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
