Installing Open Watcom on Linux
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Current build
Ark Linux contains an openwatcom package.
Ark Linux users should just
apt-get install openwatcom
Users of other RPM based distributions may want to try the i586 binary pacakge or rebuilding the Source RPM.
Gentoo initial ebuild submitted at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097
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Older build
NOTE: This binary version contains 1.6 rc2. If you want a newer version the source package must be downloaded and built.
The easiest way to install Open Watcom on Linux is to use the .deb packages made by Blair Campbell <blairdude at gmail dot com>. They are available at:
http://blairdude.googlepages.com/list.html
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How to install
- Download and install the packages for each of the targets you want. For example, you'll need the openwatcom-target-386-linux package if you want to produce Linux binaries of your source code, or one of the DOS-targeting packages if you want to produce DOS .exe files. Your distribution's dependency resolution will ensure you have the rest of the packages you need.
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Notes
- The help files are in the openwatcom-help package.
- Blair writes, "The startup code is in a misc package or something like that."
- Currently there are no source packages
