Date:  Sat, 18 May 2002 13:26:54 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: First Open Watcom 0.8.0 source code release!!

From: Kendall Bennett (Posted on the openwatcom.users.c.c++ news group on
the news.scitechsoft.com news server)


Today is a great day! We have just uploaded the first source code  archive
release of the Open Watcom Project! We have called this  version  of the
code the 0.8.0 release, since we can't consider it the 1.0  release until
all the code is there and it can compile with the Watcom 11.0c compiler.
To date nearly all of the code under the \bld  directory  is there, along
with batch files to set up build environments for  Windows and OS/2
machines. Some stuff is missing (noteably all the  Fortran source code),
but it will be committed to the Open Watcom tree over the next few weeks.
Also some source files could well have been  broken during the process of
attaching the Open Watcom project  copyright  header information. If you
find any broken files, please let us know! 

Also although you cannot simply run a full build right now, you can 
pretty much go into any directory and run 'wmake' with the 11.0c  compiler
installed on your machine (once you copy edit the  \setvars.bat  file of
course!) on most projects and they will build. Naturally there are many
dependencies on libraries etc, but it is easy enough to see  which library
it is requiring, CD to that directory and run wmake in  that directory
also. Eventually of course we will have the full build  system working so
that you can just say 'go' and it will all build ;-) 

But the good news is that the source code has arrived! This is a  *HUGE* 
amount of source code that has been released. This ZIP files contains 
over 18,000 source code files totalling nearly 78MB of just source  code 
(no binaries!). It compresses down to about 28MB for the current ZIP  file
archive, and includes source code for so many things it would be 
difficult to list them all (just think, compiler, linker, assembler, 
editor, IDE, debugger, POSIX command line tools and much more!). Also 
note that included is full source code to the DEC Alpha compiler,  which 
we built and quickly tested a week or so ago and it produced working  code
that ran under Windows NT 4.0 on a DEC Alpha machine ;-) 

Remember, this is a *LOT* of source code. If you are not willing to  get 
your hands dirty figuring things out for yourself, don't bother 
downloading the code. We can't answer 50,000 emails about how to  compiler
Open Watcom, and won't. So use at your own risk. But most of  all: 

ENJOY!!

URL: ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/watcom/openwatcom/
Web: http://www.openwatcom.org

Note: We have to extend a big thank you to Sybase and the people at 
Sybase that worked diligently with us over the years to finally make  Open
Watcom a reality. They know who they are, so "Thanks guys!".  -- 
Kendall Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
SciTech Software, Inc.
Phone: (530) 894 8400
http://www.scitechsoft.com

~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology!



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