micah@portia.Stanford.EDU (Micah Doyle) (02/07/90)
I'm interested in using OS/2 as a development environment for Windows, i.e., do all editing, C++ compiling, etc. for a Windows program under OS/2 (taking advantage of the multi-processing and memory protection), and then running the result in a DOS window within OS/2. Has anyone tried this? If so, what tools are you using and what problems did you have? Thanks for any info and advice. Micah Doyle
abukarb@prism.cs.orst.edu (Bassam A. Abu-Karroum) (02/08/90)
In article <8909@portia.Stanford.EDU> micah@portia.Stanford.EDU (Micah Doyle) writes: >I'm interested in using OS/2 as a development environment for Windows, >i.e., do all editing, C++ compiling, etc. for a Windows program under >OS/2 (taking advantage of the multi-processing and memory protection), >and then running the result in a DOS window within OS/2. Has anyone >tried this? If so, what tools are you using and what problems did you >have? Thanks for any info and advice. > > Micah Doyle I worked with both OS/2 1.1 and 1.2 for developing Windows applciations. However, you can do everything you need; editing and compiling under OS/2, but building needs to be done in the DOS box. This is because the link4 program which Windows uses is a real-mode only program and cannot run in the protected mode under OS/2 (at least in my case.) I was using Microsoft C compiler 5.1 and at installation time you need to install for both OS/2 and DOS environments, also SDK version 2.1. No other problems to mention (besides my own bugs.) Bassam