List of Tools
This section give OS/2 developers a list of available tools: What they do, how to get them, and links to related stuff, like an EDM/2 article covering the issue. And not the least: The "Discussion" section of each entry allows to add personal comments, experiences and opinions. You can also view development tools classified by the programming language used.
Contents
- 1 Categories
- 1.1 Full Packages
- 1.2 Integrated Developer's Environments (IDE)
- 1.3 Developer's Toolkits for OS/2
- 1.4 Source Code Generators
- 1.5 Debugging Tools
- 1.6 Code Interpreters
- 1.7 Editors
- 1.8 Version Control
- 1.9 Cross development tools
- 1.10 Make Tools
- 1.11 Generic library's and executables
- 1.12 Binary Code Generators (Compilers, Linkers etc.)
- 1.13 Code Libraries
- 1.14 Online Help Compilers and Tools
- 1.15 Installers
- 1.16 Development Utilities
- 1.17 Graphical User Interface Editors
- 1.18 Databases
- 1.19 Monitoring
- 1.20 Macro Processors
- 1.21 Software and quality testing tools
- 1.22 Spreadsheets
- 1.23 Code formatters, beautifiers and visualisation tools
- 2 Applications with API's
Categories
Full Packages
This includes full development packages, containing elements like compiler(s), make tools, debuggers etc. The most important single tools from any package should be also entered in the appropriate sections below.
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
Alsys Ada | Commercial | Discontinued |
Arity Prolog | Commercial | Discontinued |
Artek Ada | Commercial | Discontinued |
Borland C/C++ Version 2.0 | Commercial | Discontinued |
Borland JBuilder (Java) | Commercial | Discontinued, Free Personal Edition |
Enfin Smalltalk | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM C/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM C Set/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM C Set++ for OS/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VisualAge COBOL | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VisualAge C++ 3.0 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM C and C++ Compilers, Version 3.6.5 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VisualAge C++ Professional 4.0 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VisualAge Smalltalk Enterprise 6.0 | Commercial | Discontinued |
Innotek GCC | Open Source - GNU GPL | Discontinued |
Interactive Forth-83 | Commercial | Discontinued |
JBA Guidelines | Commercial | Discontinued |
Logitech Modula-2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
Micro Focus Cobol | Commercial | Discontinued |
Microshare Basic | Commercial | Discontinued |
Microsoft Basic Professional | Commercial | Discontinued |
Microsoft C | Commercial | Discontinued |
Microsoft Cobol | Commercial | Discontinued |
Microsoft Pascal | Commercial | Discontinued |
Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran | Open Source | Current |
Oracle JDeveloper | Freeware | Current |
Prospero FORTRAN 77 | Commercial | Discontinued |
Prospero Pascal | Commercial | Discontinued |
TopSpeed C | Commercial | Discontinued |
TopSpeed C++ | Commercial | Discontinued |
TopSpeed Modula-2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
TopSpeed Pascal | Commercial | Discontinued |
TopSpeed TechKit | Commercial | Discontinued |
Tower Eiffel | Commercial | Discontinued |
Visual Prolog | Commercial | Discontinued, Free Personal Edition |
VisualWorks | Commercial | Discontinued |
Integrated Developer's Environments (IDE)
GUI frameworks integrating all necessary development tools into one surface. Note: Most programmer's editors can also be configured to serve as simple IDEs
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
Hockware VisPro/C | Commercial | Discontinued |
Hockware VisPro/C++ | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Workframe/2 1.1 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Workframe/2 2.x | Commercial | Discontinued |
VAC/C++ 3.0 Workframe | Commercial | Discontinued |
VAC/C++ 4.0 Workframe | Commercial | Discontinued |
NetBeans | Open Source | Current |
SpeedSoft Sibyl | Open Source - GNU GPL | Discontinued |
WDSibyl (Updated Speedsoft Sibyl) | Open Source - GNU GPL | Current |
Developer's Toolkits for OS/2
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
IBM OS/2 2.x Developer's Toolkit | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM OS/2 Warp Developer's Toolkit | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Developer Connection Device Driver Kits for OS/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
MKS Toolkit | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VisualAge C++ Distribuited Application Development Toolkit (DADT) | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Internationalization (I18N) | Discontinued | |
Image Handler | Discontinued | |
IBM LAN Systems Toolkit | Discontinued | |
IBM Multimedia OpenDoc | Discontinued | |
IBM OpenDoc for OS/2 | Discontinued | |
IBM Pen for OS/2 Developer's Toolkit | Discontinued | |
IBM SearchManager/2 Toolkit | Discontinued | |
IBM SOMObjects Developer Toolkit | Discontinued | |
IBM SOMObjects WorkGroup Enabler | Discontinued | |
IBM SOMObjects WorkStation Enabler | Discontinued | |
IBM TCP/IP Programmer's Toolkit | Commercial | Discontinued |
TbxShield | Commercial | Discontinued |
TWAIN Software Developer's kit | Discontinued |
Source Code Generators
Facilities for automatically generating source code
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
The APL c compiler project | Open source | Current |
CAPLink | Commercial | Discontinued |
COBOL sp2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
General Application Workbench | Commercial | Discontinued |
Guidelines | Commercial | Discontinued |
KASE:Set for OS/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
PartMeister | Comercila | Discontinued |
PMI ModBase | Commercial | Discontinued |
Professor Owl | Commercial | Discontinued |
Rational Rose | Commercial | Discontinued |
SOM Compiler (IBM OS/2 Toolkit, SOMobjects Toolkit, OpenDoc Toolkit) | Commercial | Discontinued |
VisualAge C++ 3.0 Visual Builder | Commercial | Discontinued |
VisualAge C++ 4.0 Visual Builder | Commercial | Discontinued |
Debugging Tools
Debugging tools, including debuggers, trace tools etc.
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
IBM VAC/C++ 3.0 Debugger | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VAC/C++ 4.0 Debugger | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Interactive Code Analysis Tool (ICAT) | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Source Debugger | Open Source | Discontinued |
IDA | Commercial | Discontinued |
OpenWatcom Debugger (wd) | Open Source | Current |
PMPrintf | Open Source | Discontinued |
Smalltalk Professional Debug Package | Commercial | Discontinued |
Turbo Debugger | Commercial | Discontinued |
Code Interpreters
Interpreters for interpreted or scripting languages
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
C-Forth | Open Source | Discontinued |
C Styled Script | Open Source | Discontinued |
C Scripting Language | Open Source | Discontinued |
dBase | Commercial | Discontinued |
FIG-Forth | Open Source | Discontinued |
FORTH/2 | Shareware/Open Source | Discontinued |
Haskell | ||
Irie Pascal | Shareware | Discontinued |
Lotus Script | Commercial | Comes with Lotus Office |
Martin Richards BCPL | Open Source | Current |
Microsoft Typescript | Open Source | Current |
NetREXX | Open Source | Current |
ObjectREXX | Open Source | Discontinued |
Perl | Open Source | |
Personal REXX | Commercial | Discontinued |
PM Tcl/Tk | Open Source | Discontinued |
PMPro Prolog | Commercial | Discontinued |
Python | Open Source | |
RPilot | Open source | Discontinued |
Ruby | Open source | Discontinued |
ScriptEase | Commercial | Discontinued |
UR/Forth | Commercial | Discontinued |
Editors
Source code and special editors for development purposes.
This section has been moved, See: Category:Text editors
Version Control
Name | Type | License | Status |
---|---|---|---|
BLDLEVEL | - | Commercial | Discontinued |
CVS | Project based | Open Source | Discontinued |
CVSWatch | - | Open Source | Current |
ENVY/Developer | Smalltalk - Object based | Commercial | Discontinued |
Git | File based | Open Source | Current |
Perforce | File based | Commercial | Discontinued |
RCS | File based | Open Source | Discontinued |
SmartCVS | Client | Commercial | Current |
SmartGit | Client | Commercial | Current |
SmartSVN | Client | Commercial | Current |
SUBVERSION | File based | Open Source | |
SUPERVERSION | File based | Open Source | |
SYSLEVEL | - | Commercial | Discontinued |
Cross development tools
Name | License | Status | Target |
---|---|---|---|
CC65 | Open Source | Discontinued | 65xx |
JALV | Open Source | Current | PIC |
LMI Forth-83 | Commercial | Discontinued | Many |
Make Tools
Tools for applying all kinds of actions (like: compiling, linking etc.) depending on rules and dependencies.
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
IBM/Microsoft NMAKE | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM IMAKE | Commercial | Discontinued |
GNU Make | Open Source - GNU GPL | Current |
kBuild | Open Source | Current |
OpenWatcom WMake | Open Source - GNU GPL | Current |
PMMake | Freeware |
Generic library's and executables
Tools that are supplied as pre-compiled library's, either EXE or as DLL files and can therefore be used with any development tool.
Name | Type | License | Status |
---|---|---|---|
OpenSSL | SSL & encryption | Open source | Current |
Binary Code Generators (Compilers, Linkers etc.)
Tools for generating binary code (like intermediate *.obj files, executables, run time libraries, binary resources, compiled documentation like *.inf or *.hlp files) from source code. See also #Full Packages
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
ACUCOBOL-85 | Commercial | Discontinued |
Cim | Open Source - GNU GPL | Discontinued |
EMX C/C++ | Open Source - GNU GPL | Discontinued |
Free Pascal | Open Source - GNU GPL | Current |
GCC C/C++ Compiler and Linker | Open Source - GNU GPL | Current |
GNAT | Open Source - GNU GPL | Discontinued |
GNU Pascal | Open Source - GNU GPL | Discontinued |
IBM ILINK, Version 5.0 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Presentation Facility Compiler (IPFC from IBM toolkits) | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VAC/C++ 3.0 Compiler and Linker | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM VAC/C++ 3.6.5 Compiler and Linker | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM ALP Assembler | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Resource Compiler (RC from IBM toolkits) | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM PL/I for OS/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
NASM Assembler | Open Source - LGPL | Current |
OpenWatcom C/C++ and Fortran | Open Source | Current |
PC Simula | Commercial | Discontinued |
SmallEiffel | Open source | Discontinued |
SpeedSoft Sibyl Pascal Compiler and Linker | Open Source - GNU GPL | Discontinued |
Stony Brook Professional Modula-2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
TMT Pascal | Commercial | Discontinued |
UR/Forth | Commercial | Discontinued |
Virtual Pascal | Freeware | Discontinued |
WDSibyl Pascal Compiler and Linker | Open Source - GNU GPL | Current |
Code Libraries
Name | License | Status | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Canny | Open Source | Discontinued | Ruby |
C/Database Toolchest | Commercial | Current | C |
CdBFile | Open Source | Discontinued | C++ |
cstring | Open Source | Current | C |
Cubus OS/2 Class Library | Freeware/Open | Discontinued | |
dbfLIB | Commercial | Discontinued | C |
dbfLIB++ | Commercial | Discontinued | C++ |
dbfREXX | Commercial | Discontinued | REXX |
Dynamic Windows | Open source | Current | C |
Eco Common Lisp | Open source | Current | C |
e_Comm | Commercial | Discontinued | C & C++ |
e_Db | Commercial | Discontinued | C, C++ & Java |
e_Fs | Commercial | Discontinued | C & C++ |
EverBlue (X11 API library) | Open source | Obsolete | |
GoldenCode Java Development Kit 1.4.1 | Commercial | Discontinued | |
Graphics Development Toolkit | Language independent vector graphics kernel | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Open Class Library (IOCL from VAC/C++ 3.0 and 4.0) | Commercial | Discontinued | |
IBM OS2 Warp Developer Kit, Java Technology Edition 1.1.8 | Commercial | Discontinued | |
IBM OS2 Warp Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition 1.3.1 SR 10 | Commercial | Discontinued | |
InnoTek Java | Freeware | Discontinued | |
KEE16 | Freeware | Current | |
Kroni's Classes | PostcardWare | Discontinued | C++ |
Lattice Comm Library | Commercial | Discontinued | C |
Lattice dBC III | Commercial | Discontinued | C |
LesTecIO | Commercial | Current | REXX |
libcurl | Open source | Current | C |
LZO | Open source | Current | C, Java |
LZ4 | Open source | Current | C, C++, Java, Pascal, ECMAScript |
nCurses | Open Source | Current | C |
Net.h++ | Commercial | Discontinued | C++ |
Odin (Win32-API library) | Open Source | Current | |
OpenGL | Freeware | Discontinued | |
The Open Objects Library (OOL) | Freeware | Discontinued | C++ |
OpenSSL | Open source | Current | C |
OpenZinc | Open source | Current | C++ |
PMI DxfOut | Commercial | Discontinued | Modula-2 |
PMI DynaMatrix | Commercial | Discontinued | Modula-2 |
PMI EEv | Commercial | Discontinued | Modula-2 |
PMI Macro2 | Commercial | Discontinued | Modula-2 |
PMI ModBase | Commercial | Discontinued | Modula-2 |
PMI Repertorie | Commercial | Discontinued | Modula-2 |
Public Domain Curses | Open Source | Current | C |
Qt | Open Source | Current | |
Rexx/Curses | Open Source | Current | REXX |
REXX/DW | Open Source | Current | REXX |
REXXUtil | Open Source | Discontinued | REXX |
REXXIO | Freeware | Current | REXX |
REXXSEM | FreeWare | Discontinued | REXX |
REXX/Tk | Open Source | Discontinued | REXX |
shwild | Open Source | Current | C, C++ |
Snappy | Open Source | Current | C, C++, LISP, Java |
Socket++ | Open Source | Current | C++ |
spUtils | Open Source | Discontinued | REXX |
The Standard Function Library | Open Source | Discontinued | C |
Standard Template Library (STL) | C++ | ||
STLSoft | Open Source | Current | C++ |
ST-Open | Open Source | Current | Assembly |
Threads.h++ | Commercial | Discontinued | C++ |
Tools.h++ | Commercial | Discontinued | C++ |
Workplace Shell Toolkit | Open Source | ||
WidgetKit/Business Graphics | Commercial | Discontinued | Smalltalk |
wxWidgets | Open Source - LGPL | Current | |
ZGRAF | Commercial | Current | C++ |
Zinc Application Framework | Commercial | Discontinued | C++ |
Zipios++ | Open Source | Current | C++ |
Online Help Compilers and Tools
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
IBM IPF Compiler | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM HyperWise/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
IBM Bookmaker for OS/2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
OpenWatcom WIPFC | Open Source | in Development |
Phelsuma/2 | Freeware | Discontinued |
Vyperhelp | Open Source | Discontinued |
Installers
Installation tools for distributing any software package.
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
Generic Installer | ||
IBM Software installer | ||
IBM OS/2 Feature Install | ||
SFX Installer | Shareware | |
RPM | Open Source | Current |
WarpIN | Open Source - GNU GPL | Current |
Development Utilities
Development Tools / Libraries
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
Rwx | FreeWare | Discontinued |
Prominare Converter | Commercial | Discontinued |
Prominare Validator | Commercial | Discontinued |
SOM Class Administrator | ?? | Discontinued |
The Object Factory | Commercial | Discontinued |
bfaError | ?? | Discontinued |
Graphical User Interface Editors
Development Tools / Libraries
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
COBOL sp2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
General Application Workbench | Commercial | Discontinued |
MAID | Commercial | Current |
Prominare Designer | Commercial | Discontinued |
Prominare Universal Resource Editor | Commercial | Discontinued |
Visual Ada Developer | Open Source | Current |
WindowBuilder Pro | Commercial | Discontinued |
Databases
Name | System | License | Status |
---|---|---|---|
Apache Derby | SQL | Open Source | Current |
Beagle SQL | SQL | Open Source | Discontinued |
Borland Paradox | Own 4GL | Commercial | Discontinued |
Bullet | Own API | Commercial | Discontinued |
CodeBase | xBase | Commercial | Discontinued |
dBase | xBase | Commercial | Discontinued |
Harbour | xBase | Open Source | Current |
Lattice dBC III | Own API | Commercial | Discontinued |
Lotus Approach | Approach | Commercial | Discontinued |
MSQL | SQL | Open Source/Commercial | Discontinued |
MySQL | SQL | Open Source/Commercial | Current |
ObjectStore | OO | Commercial | Discontinued |
Omnis 5 | Own 4GL | Commercial | Discontinued |
OnCMD | xBase | Commercial | Current |
Poise DMS | Own 4GL | Commercial | Discontinued |
PostgreSQL | SQL | Open Source | Current |
Rel | D | Open Source | Current |
SQLite | SQL | Open Source | Current |
xBase++ | xBase | Commercial | Discontinued |
XDB Enterprise Server | Commercial | Discontinued | |
xHarbour | xBase | Open Source | Discontinued |
X2C | xBase | Open Source | Current |
Note that this list does not include database libraries that allow you to build databases into your programs unless they are complete databases like SQLite, otherwise they are listed under libraries.
Monitoring
Monitoring Tools.
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
PM Patrol | Commercial | Discontinued |
Macro Processors
Macro processors and pre-processors
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
Agena | Open Source | Current |
GNU awk (gawk) | Open Source - LGPL | Discontinued |
ML/I | Open Source | Current |
PMI Macro2 | Commercial | Discontinued |
PPWizard | Open Source | Current |
Software and quality testing tools
Name | Type | License | Status |
---|---|---|---|
CC-Rider C++ | C/C++ static analysis | Commercial | Discontinued |
Segue QA PArtner | Automated testing | Commercial | Discontinued |
Softbridge Automated Test Facility | Automated testing | Commercial | Discontinued |
Software TestWorks | Automated testing | Commercial | Discontinued |
Splint | C/C++ static Analyser | Open Source | Current |
Spreadsheets
This category has been moved, see: Category:Spreadsheets
Code formatters, beautifiers and visualisation tools
Name | License | Status | Languages |
---|---|---|---|
CC-Rider C++ | Commercial | Discontinued | C/C++ |
Source Mapper | Open source | Discontinued | C |
Applications with API's
Communications
Name | License | Status |
---|---|---|
FaxWorks | Commercial | Discontinued |
Spreadsheets
Name | Function | License | Status |
---|---|---|---|
Mesa 2 | GUI Spreadsheet wit RT capabilities | Commercial | Discontinued |