Revision as of 18:36, 1 March 2017

The OS/2 API Project (also known as The OS/2 API Documentation Project) is an effort that aims to document all the OS/2 available APIs under an non-restrictive license that can allow derivative works.

For contributors, please review the Introduction to the OS/2 API Documentation.

OS/2 Warp APIs

This are the APIs included on the IBM's OS/2 Warp product.

Control Program

Languages

Runtime Libraries
Language Support
- REXX
- Java Native Interface

Network

TCP/IP

Environment Calls

Desktop Management Interface

Kernel

Presentation Manager

System Object Model (SOM)

SOM Kernel
Interface Repository
Distributed System Object Model API
Workplace Shell
OpenDoc
Open Scripting Architecture
Taligent classes (OS/2 Warp 4 and above)

Drivers

OEM Helper
ASPI Router
USB stack driver (usbd)

Multimedia

Others

Third Parties OS/2 Based APIs

This table lists the third party APIs based on the component level they run.

Kernel

ASPI Interface Library

Drivers

ACPI32
Resource Manager (eCS 1.1 and above)
USBCalls
WarpOverlay

Control Program

Network

Others

APIEX000 - Guided Procedures (eCS 1.1 and above.)
CFGSYS
The OS/2 Command Line Utilities
CUtil
The Open Objects Library (OOL) API
spUtils
WPTools
OS/2 API Trace
SciTech MGL

MMOS2

MIDIFile

Presentation Manager

System Object Model (SOM)

eWorkplace (eCS 1.1 and above)
eSchemes (eCS 2.0 and above)
Open Scripting Architecture
SOMXBase
xWorkplace

REXX

VXREXX

OS/2 Ported APIs

These are APIs ported from other platforms to OS/2-eCS-ArcaOS. The functions documentation of the APIs are only linked to their respective sites.

Control Program

Database

DB4 - The Berkeley DB Database Library (klibc)
sqlite (klibc)

Files

file-libs - Fine Free File Command (klibc)

Graphics

SciTech MGL

I/O

libaio (klibc)
libusb (klibc) [1]

Multimedia

ffmpeg (klibc)
libkai - K Audio Interface Library (klibc)
libvpx - VP8 Video CODEC (klibc)
libdvdnav (klibc)
poppler - PDF rendering library (klibc)
x264

Network

nss - Network Security Services (klibc)
libcurl (klibc)
nspr - Netscape Portable Runtime (klibc)

Print

CUPS Lib (klibc)

Programming Languages Lib

LIBC
libssp - GNU Stack Protector Shared Library (klibc)
mmap (klibc)
perl (klibc)
python (klibc)
pthread (klibc)
urpo (klibc)

Regional / Languages

gettext (klibc)
icu - libicu - International Components for Unicode (klibc)
libiconv

Security

libgpg-error (klibc)
libgcrypt (klibc)
openssl (klibc)

Utility

libvnc (klibc)
ncurses library (klibc)
rpm (klibc)

XML

libxml (klibc)

C

plibsys (klibc)

Presentation Manager

glib - GTK+

Graphics

SDL (klibc)
Cairo (klibc)
Qt 4 Libraries (klibc)

Fonts

fontconfig (klibc)
pango (klibc)

KLIBC

This are the libraries/runtimes that does not depends directly on CPI or PM.

Data Compression

liblzma - LZMA Library
zlib

Fonts / Text

GNU Aspell

Graphics

lcms2 - Little CMS
libjpeg-turbo
libjpg - Independent JPEG Group
LibTiff - [2]
libpng
pixman

Interface

libidl - IDL Parsing Library

Math

gmp - The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
libmpc - GNU MPC
mpfr - The GNU MPFR Library

Multimedia

freetype
libdvbpsi
popt-libs
qpdf lib

Print

gutenprint Lib

Programming Languages

GCC
libstdc++ - GNU Standard C++ Library
pcre - Pearl-compatible Regular Expression Library

Utilities

readline

XML

expat
libxslt

Contributors

The contributors of the OS/2 API Project:

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 This are the APIs included on the IBM's OS/2 Warp product.
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 * [[OS2_API:DMI | Desktop Management Interface]]
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 *[[OS2_API:OSA | Open Scripting Architecture]]
 *Taligent classes (OS/2 Warp 4 and above)
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 * OEM Helper
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 *[[IBM WorkFrame/2 API]]
 *REXXUtil API
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-</tr>
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 ==Third Parties OS/2 Based APIs==
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 This table lists the third party APIs based on the component level they run.
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 * [[OS2_API:ASPI|ASPI Interface Library]]
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+*[[ACPI32]]
+*Resource Manager (eCS 1.1 and above)
+*[[USBCalls]]
+*[[WarpOverlay]]
 <h3 id="sec-col2-1" style="margin:3px; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Control Program</h3>
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+*[[APIEX000| APIEX000 - Guided Procedures]] (eCS 1.1 and above.)
+*[[CFGSYS]]
+*[[The OS/2 Command Line Utilities]]
+*[[CUtil]]
+*[[The Open Objects Library (OOL) API]]
+*[[spUtils]]
+*[[WPTools]]
+*[[OS/2 API Trace]]
+*[[SciTech MGL]]
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+*[[MIDIFile API|MIDIFile]]
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 *[[AsuaCtl]]
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-*[[ACPI32]]
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-*[[USBCalls]]
-*[[WarpOverlay]]
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-*[[MIDIFile API|MIDIFile]]
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 *[[VX-REXX Splitbar]]
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+|}
-*[[APIEX000| APIEX000 - Guided Procedures]] (eCS 1.1 and above.)
-*[[CFGSYS]]
-*[[The OS/2 Command Line Utilities]]
-*[[CUtil]]
-*[[The Open Objects Library (OOL) API]]
-*[[spUtils]]
-*[[WPTools]]
-*[[OS/2 API Trace]]
-*[[SciTech MGL]]
-</div>
-</td>
-</table>
 ==OS/2 Ported APIs==
 <!--        OS/2 PORTED APIs        -->
 These are APIs ported from other platforms to OS/2-eCS-ArcaOS. The functions documentation of the APIs are only linked to their respective sites.
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 * urpo (klibc)
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 <h4>Regional / Languages</h4>
 * gettext (klibc)
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 * GNU Aspell
+<!-- THIRD COLUMN -->
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 <h4>Graphics</h4>
 *lcms2 - Little CMS
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 * expat
 * libxslt
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-</td>
-</table>
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 * [[A personal look at the OS/2 API ]] by [[Roger Orr]] (December 1993)
 * [[What APIs are new to OS/2 2.1?]] by [[Marc van Woerkom]]
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 * [[Veit Kannegieser]]
 * [[Alex Taylor]]
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