STLport and VAC++ for OS/2

by Darrell Spice

STLport is a multiplatform ANSI C++ Standard library. Using it adds the missing standard libraries, such as the standard string class, to Visual Age C++ (VAC++). I'm using version 3.08 of VAC++. SET INCLUDE=D:\IBMCPP\INCLUDE;D:\IBMCPP\INCLUDE\OS2;D:\IBMCPP\INC;D:\IBMCPP\INCLUDE\SOM;C:\JAVA11\INCLUDE;C:\JAVA11\INCLUDE\OS2; I changed it to SET INCLUDE=D:\IBMCPP\STLport-4.0\STLport;D:\IBMCPP\INCLUDE;D:\IBMCPP\INCLUDE\OS2;D:\IBMCPP\INC;D:\IBMCPP\INCLUDE\SOM;C:\JAVA11\INCLUDE;C:\JAVA11\INCLUDE\OS2;
 * 1) Download STLport, I got version 4.0
 * 2) Unzip into your IBMCPP directory
 * 3) Modify your config.sys file to put the STLport files first in the INCLUDE path mine was
 * 1) In STLport version 4.0, the IOSTREAM class isn't ready for VAC++, so we must configure STLport to use VAC++'s version instead
 * a. Edit file D:\ibmcpp\stlport-4.0\stlport\stl\_site_config.h
 * b. add the following line at the top of _site_config.h #define __STL_NO_SGI_IOSTREAMS
 * 1) Compile your project - you'll get some unresolved external link errors
 * 2) a new directory, tempinc will show up in your project's directory - we need to add it to VAC++'s list of source code directories[[Image:Vacprop.png|thumb]]
 * a. Bring up your project's properties dialog
 * b. select the Location tab
 * c. add the tempinc directory to the list - my list for Stella/2 looks like this
 * 1) Rebuild your MAKEFILE - don't forget to add the new source files from TEMPINC
 * 2) Recompile your project
 * 3) More files may show up in the TEMPINC directory - if so, go back to step 7.