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The GNU Compiler Collection or GCC contains what is possibly the technically most advanced currently maintained C/C++ compiler for OS/2 and eCS, generating good code and supporting the latest standards. Because it is available and maintained for a large number of operating systems it is also for many the first choice when it comes to writing portable code. However it should be noted that many of the operating systems listed as being supported by GCC have had their support removed in the 4x branch or earlier, meaning that to archive full portability you may have to keep 2.x (EMX) or 3.x branches of GCC going if you are targeting some of the less used OS's. In addition systems that are not UNIX like may need emulation layers and libraries and in some cases such as with Microsoft Windows their uses can be clunky or even problematic.

Source and References

For a long time the EMX collection included the preferred GNU GCC port for OS/2 developers, it still is to a degree preferable to the later DJGPP for DOS development work even though the latter collection supports newer versions of GCC.
Innotek GCC was also available but Innotek is no longer in business since it was acquired by Sun Microsystems.

Versions

GCC/2

Nov 1994: 2.6.1

EMX

May 1992: emx 0.8d - GCC 2.1
Dec 1993: emx 0.8h - GCC 2.5.7
1995: emx 0.9a fix 06 - GCC 2.7.0
Sep 1996: emx 0.9c - GCC 2.7.2.1
Dec 1998: emx 0.9d - GCC 2.8.1 - latest fix (Mar 2001): emx 0.9d FIX 04
2003-03-07: GCC 3.2.1 R2 - beta version by Andrew Zabolotny - emx 0.9d required

Innotek GCC / Netlabs

Jul 2003: Innotek GCC for OS/2 3.2.2 beta
2005-11-17: GCC 3.3.5 GA2
2014-10-26: GCC 3.3.5 CSD6

Latest ports

Latest OS/2 version: GCC - GNU C Compiler v4.9.2 (2014-12-18), v5.1.0 Alpha (2015-04-26) or 6.1.0 Alpha (2016-05-01)

Links

OS/2 ports: http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php?page=gcc-v4-9-x
Official Site: https://gcc.gnu.org/

License and availability

Open source software released under the GPL v3 - Actively developed.

Publications

Innotek development tools - Presentation of GCC and Java (2003)

Authors and publisher

Free Software Foundation
Mikuláš Patočka (GCC 3.x OS/2 port)
Paul Smedley (Current OS/2 port maintainer)

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 ==Authors and publisher==
 * [[Free Software Foundation]]
-* [[Mikulas Patocka]] (GCC 3.x OS/2 port)
+* [[Mikuláš Patočka]] (GCC 3.x OS/2 port)
 * [[Paul Smedley]] (Current OS/2 port maintainer)
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