diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'README.OS2')
-rw-r--r-- | README.OS2 | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.OS2 b/README.OS2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e59cc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.OS2 @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Additional hints for OS/2 users: + +- if you only have FAT file systems, forget compiling AS rightaway - we + need the long filenames and therefore a HPFS file system! + +- You need the following Unix tools, ported to OS/2 : + + - 'gzip' and 'tar' to unpack the archive, but you obviously already + have managed that ;-) + + - Eberhard Matthes' port of the GNU-C compiler for OS/2. I haven't + made personally any attempts with other OS/2 compilers so far, but + it might be worth a try.... AS includes already patches for IBM's + Visual Age C 3.0 made by Steffen Schuemann <s.schuemann@pobox.com> + relative to the original r6 distribution. I couldn't test them + myself since I do not have the IBM compiler :-( + + - a make utility to process the Makefile. A port of GNU's make should + be perfect. + +- Copy 'Makefile.os2' (for emx) resp. 'Makefile.vac' (for IBM Visual Age C) + to 'Makefile' . + +- If you make a binary distribution, don't forget to include the emx + runtime libaries... + |