3 Mar
2002
3 Mar
'02
9:14 p.m.
On 2002-Mar-03 13:51:25 +0100, Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre(a)laposte.net> wrote:
Mike Haertel wrote:
as of march 2002, try the download page to get the "binary" compiler.
http://www.openwatcom.com/download.html
For several years now, Sybase has been announcing that it will release
the source code to its C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers. This is _still_
vaporware. Their latest press release suggests that they have decided
on a License - but won't even make that public at present.
You can download a Windoze executable, but that is not of much use for
Unix. And the size of the download suggests that there will need to
be a fair bit of work to make it run natively in a 16-bit environment.
At this time, the only open-source 16-bit x86 C compiler I know of is
Bruce Evans' C compiler (bcc).
Peter
Anyhow I
have started gathering the tools (Watcom C compiler now
open source and free! www.openwatcom.org)
They have announced that it *will be* open source and free,
but so far as far as I can tell there is nothing available
at openwatcom.org except a binary-only patch to upgrade
the last commercial version 11 to 11.0c.
So, it isn't yet. Right now it's just vaporware.