Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 09:38:35 EST
From: "T. Scott Ankrum" <scott_ankrum AT VNET DOT IBM DOT COM>
To: G++ mailing list                           <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: G++ (Not) For OS/2

   I really appreciate all of the very quick and friendly help I am
getting on this list!

    I think I need to recheck that I am setting the required
environment variables prior to using INFO. (My own turn-around to this
list is slow because I am accessing it from work, but I am installing
the compiler at home, where I don't yet have Internet access.) It may
be that I was trying to use INFO before executing the SET commands. I
was only thinking about the compiler needing the SETs and not INFO.

    I have to respond to one person's comment that most programmers
know that GCC is a DOS compiler. Well, you have to start somewhere and
the README file clearly says that DJGPP runs under OS/2.

    A couple of people have pointed me to the EMX package. I know
equally little about both DJGPP and EMX. I have not installed EMX yet,
but after downloading it, I can see it is a true OS/2 application and
produces OS/2 programs. I have also found that the documentation is
viewable by a standard OS/2 utility ("VIEW"). So, I am going to take a
harder look at EMX. Since my project involves comparing experiences
with C++ and Ada, both being OS/2 compilers will make for a fairer
comparison.



T. Scott Ankrum -- IBM, Software Solutions Division, Bethesda
                   Phone: (301)-803-1990  FAX: (301)-803-2377
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