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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: HELP: need information on how to port ms-windows -> OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.040232.26277@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <2702@targon.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:02:32 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <2702@targon.UUCP> andre@targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen) writes:
- >What do I have to do to get a pair of MS Windows (3.0/3.1) programs running
- >on OS/2 1.x or 2.x presentation manager?
- >To be more specific, I have a set of programs that use a server that
- >runs on a Unix machine. The IPC I use is LanManager named pipes from
- >windows to lan mananger on unix. On the PC I have two programs,
- >one keeps the connection with the server and accepts requests via
- >DDE. The other implements a UI and gets results via DDE from the other
- >windows program.
- >Now I must find out what I have to do let these run on OS/2 machines
- >I do not know if I am going to use OS/2 1.x or 2.x.
- >- Are there tools to help me?
- >- Do I have to port or should it run as is with an extra set of dll's?
- >- What about the Named Pipe connection?
- >- Is the DDE mechanism the same (where are the differences)?
- >I looked in the faq's but they didn't help me,
- >any information is welcome.
-
- Well, first off OS/2 2.0 does run Windows programs rather well. But
- you probably will want to do some porting.
-
- If so, there are basically two approaches. One is to get an OS/2
- compiler, programming documentation, and go to it. The most popular
- method right now (on the commercial side) of doing that is to get
- IBM's $375 WorkSet/2 product (which includes C Set/2 compiler,
- debugger, WorkFrame/2, and Toolkit, including lots of online
- programming information). Then you just go and code. A brute force
- approach.
-
- The other way is to call Micrographx and ask them about Mirrors for
- OS/2. This product essentially lets you recompile your existing
- Windows source code to run as a "native" OS/2 application, with a
- minimum of fuss.
-
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