Open32: Difference between revisions

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Open32 API enables the migration of Windows applications to OS/2 by providing a subset of the Win32 APIs on OS/2 for source code compatibility. The Open32 API provides an identical interface as the function in the Win32 environment.

In "Open32 Developer API Extensions for OS/2 Warp" Redbook from IBM is clarified that Open32 is not a Win32 API emulation, it is a native OS/2 function that is built on the operating system just like other interface layers like GPI, Presentation Manager, Control Program, etc.

The OS/2 Warp Version 3.0 Toolkit includes the required Open32 headers and libraries.

The following tools can be used to to analyse and migrate Windows code to OS/2 code:

SMART Version 2.1B
IBM Hyperwise Lite
IBM VisualAge C++ for OS/2 Version 3.0

Documentation

Open32 Programming Guide and Reference

IBM Redbook

SG24-4719-00: Open32 Developer API Extensions for OS/2 Warp by Theo Foster, Osamu Takagiwa, Franck Yu [1]

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+Open32 API enables the migration of Windows applications to OS/2 by providing a subset of the Win32 APIs on OS/2 for source code compatibility. The Open32 API provides an identical interface as the function in the Win32 environment.
+In "Open32 Developer API Extensions for OS/2 Warp" Redbook from IBM is clarified that Open32 is not a Win32 API emulation, it is a native OS/2 function that is built on the operating system just like other interface layers like GPI, Presentation Manager, Control Program, etc.
-==Files==
+The OS/2 Warp Version 3.0 Toolkit includes the required Open32 headers and libraries.
-|| [[PMWINX.DLL]] || Open32 API (a subset of about 800 Windows API's).
+The following tools can be used to to analyse and migrate Windows code to OS/2 code:
-|-
+* SMART Version 2.1B
+* IBM Hyperwise Lite
+* IBM VisualAge C++ for OS/2 Version 3.0
-* [[PMWINX.DLL]] -- Open32 API (a subset of about 800 Windows API's). Based on it, some progs like Lotus Smartsuite and Virtual PC, were ported to OS/2
+==Documentation==
-* [[REGISTRY.DLL]] -- windows-like registry support. Used by Open32
+* [[Open32 Programming Guide and Reference]]
-* [[MIRRORS.DLL]] -- alsosomething Open32-related
+;IBM Redbook
-* [[WGSS4?.DLL]] -- additions to Open32 used to port Netscape Communicator
+* SG24-4719-00: ''Open32 Developer API Extensions for OS/2 Warp'' by Theo Foster, Osamu Takagiwa, Franck Yu [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8413629W/Open32_Developer_Api_Extensions_for_Os_2_Warp?edition=Sg24471900]
-[[Category:Components]]
+[[Category:OS/2 Warp API]]