VisualAge C++

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IBM VisualAge C++ also commonly known in the OS/2 user community as VAC and as VAC++ in the AIX community, is a multi-platform C and C++ development package that replaced the IBM C Set++ for OS/2 package with a more modern visually oriented development system written in Smalltalk like the rest of the VisualAge products. It came with a WPS integrated "Workframe" that replaced the mostly text based WorkFrame/2 and was a integrated product unlike the latter tool, an "Visual Builder" for visual programming of visual and non-visual parts, compiler/linker, a Debugger and sundry build and Make tools and other utilities.

If certain rules were followed code written under the VisualAge C++ system was portable between OS/2, MS Windows and AIX without any changes, and the package offered a number of tools and libraries to ease porting between the supported operating systems.

Versions

  • IBM VisualAge C++ 3.0 (1995) - 5622-679
  • IBM VisualAge C++ 3.5 (Windows 95/NT only) - 5622-880
  • C and C++ Compilers for OS/2, AIX and Windows NT Version 3.6 - 5648-A81, PN 04L3535
  • IBM VisualAge C++ Professional for AIX (Jul 1998) - 5765-D52
  • IBM VisualAge C++ Professional 4.0 (Dec 1998) for OS/2 Warp and Windows NT
  • IBM VisualAge C++ Professional for AIX, V5.0 (Mar 2000) - 5765-E26 - introduced ISO C++ 1998
  • IBM VisualAge C++ Professional for AIX, V6.0 (Jul 2002) - 5765-F56, PN 45P8290

Available for AIX and later Linux PowerPC with an additional separate command line only compiler equivalent to the "IBM C and C++ Compilers" that is known as simply "C for AIX".

  • IBM VisualAge C++ V6.0 for Linux refresh (Jan 2004)

Links

  • There is a number of optional tools and utilities to be found on the IBM FTP site, these are mostly for the 3.x branch.
  • Updates for the AIX versions of VisualAge C++ can be found here.
VAC Extensions and VAC++ specific libraries

Publications

  • Nilsson, Jakab: VisualAge for C++ Visual Programmer's Handbook - Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-614322-9

License

  • Commercial software - Discontinued

Publisher