Compiling "OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming" Samples on 2016

By Martin Iturbide

DRAFT

This is a quick article about compiling some samples from the OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming from Charles Petzold (1994), but giving the approach on how to compile that samples on eComStation (or OS/2 Warp 4.52) on the 2016 year.

My goals are:

• Try (as much as possible) to compile the samples with free / open source available tools
• Try to most simply way to install the development enviroment
• Try also the most simple ways to compile this samples.

Preparing the Development Environment

On the book it talks about IBM C or Borland, both those programs are old and hard to find for OS/2 now. This is why I'm trying to compile the book PM Samples with free/open source tool that are available online.

The easiest way to prepare the environment is using Arca Noae Package Manager to remotely install the required tools and libraries.

Arca Noae Package Manager has a simple WarpIn interface to install it, so it went easy. After that I followed the advice of the VirtualBox Port Wiki to install the required software.