Best tools for Warp 3 and Warp 4

[PolBit]

I have been playing around with Warp 3 for a while on an old 486, and
decided to try out Warp 4 on a modern machine. I have both systems
running, and would be interested in getting into some C/C++/Assembler
programing. Can anybody recommend what is the best/easiest/most stable
development environment for Warp 3, and same thign for Warp 4?

I've read about Visual Age C++ 3.0 for Warp 3, but it sounds a little
buggy. Also, finding it these days is next to impossible, unless
somebody can point me to a link...

Borland C++ 2.0 seems like a better choice, but is it for Warp, or 2.x
versions? And is there a newer version? I'm used to Borland for DOS
and Windows, so that would be great. Again, however, I can't seem to
find it....

I'm not sure about Warp 4 at all...

Any suggestions, comments, help would be great!

Thanks,

PolBit

[Heiko Nitzsche]

> Any suggestions, comments, help would be great!

Try OpenWatcom (www.openwatcom.org, C/C++/Fortran). It is complete,
for non-extraordinary stuff no additional tools or toolkits are
required for command line and PM programming. For more you might
need the OS/2 Developer Toolkit. OW should run fine on Warp 3 and 4.
It comes with a really good documentation for the tools and the
standard libs. For PM programming, the PM and GPI docs can be found
somewhere on the internet. They are of course included in the OS/2
Developer Toolkit. Current version of the toolkit is 4.52.
There is also an active newsgroup for it (checkout news.openwatcom.org).

GCC 3.3.5 is also available. It should be available on www.netlabs.org
(or on the FTP server ftp.netlabs.org).
You need additionally the OS/2 Developer Toolkit (also contains nmake).

The OS/2 toolkit can be found on the installation CDs since Warp 4.5x
and eCS 1.0. It was not on the CDs of Warp 3 or 4. I have no clue where
to get it if not from the CDs.

You can also grab Paul Smedley's build environment. I don't know
if it contains the OS/2 toolkit or not.

On Hobbes you'll find many other development tools.

[Heiko Nitzsche]

The OS/2 Developer Toolkit can be also found on Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/misc/wtu45201.zip
(latest version)

[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Heiko Nitzsche
<hn-expire...@arcor.de>], who wrote in article <4744bf16$0$16661$9b4e...@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>:

> The OS/2 Developer Toolkit can be also found on Hobbes:
> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/misc/wtu45201.zip
> (latest version)

This is not a toolkit. AFAIK, 4.5 toolkit is not freely available.

Hope this helps,
Ilya