Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-08-18 08:10:27, schrieb John Goerzen:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Am 2006-07-03 09:04:39, schrieb Lars Wirzenius:
> > > su, 2006-07-02 kello 18:17 -0400, Jason Spiro kirjoitti:
> > > > * Package name    : openwatcom
> > > >   Description     : C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code
> > > 
> > > What does it mean for a compiler to produce portable code?
> > 
> > It produce executables for msdos, wfw311, win32, and linux.
> 
> Erm, no.  That's a cross-compiler, isn't it?  Any given output isn't
> portable (it will run only on one OS), but it can just target multiple
> backends.

Yes thats right.  You have ONE IDE (Windows and Linux are identic)
and you can produce on any systems Executable for other systems.

Except on DOS and WfW 3.11 where you can produce only 16Bit exes.

> And when you say Linux, I assume you mean Linux on i386 only.  (Which

Right

> limits its utility compared to gcc, and means we can't use it to build
> any Debian packages).

YesNo!  ;-9

The OpneWatcom has some extensions which do not exist in gcc
but produced Linux executable are running fine on Debian systems.

And then there are some C/C++ programs which can not compiled with
OpenWatcom.

I have create some and packed it up as Debian package.

Generaly it is its own system.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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