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OpenWatcom version 1.7 available | anyone tested it ? (Announce)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 31.08.2007, 11:46

> Has anyone seen the source code of OpenWatcom? It would be more difficult
> to get rid of dos code than to keep it.
> There are a lot of nice things in it like a windowing library that allows
> you to make windows32/16 gui, windows console, DOS32 and OS/2 windowed
> applications from the same code. For example debugger and installer use
> those libraries, so dos, win and OS/2 versions build from the same
> source.
> Really nice things, just not commented and documented (at all).
I looked into WASM, WLINK and WD source code. Once I made a change to WLINK. This worked, but I was successful only because I know "by heart" the formats of binaries and object modules. Besides the lack of comments there is another disadvantage IMO: the WD tools want to cover all platforms and formats, which inevitably requires to implement many "layers" and makes the source more difficult to understand than necessary.

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