SciTech Software, Inc. today announced that Open Watcom 1.1 has been released. This update includes a number of eagerly anticipated fixes and enhancements and can be downloaded, free of charge, from the Open Watcom web site.
SciTech Software Announces Open Watcom 1.1
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Open Watcom 1.1 was released almost 2 weeks ago (September 4th)
It was avilable on the site prior to the announcement – but was only recently approved for official release.
The prior releases were the RC release. We found no issues so we switched over to the final release. The announcement is a little late, but the primary reason for doing that was to give the mirror time to pick it up. Unfortunately something is wrong with the mirror and it is not picking up the new binaries, so we decided to announce it while we fix the mirror rather than keep waiting 😉
Ahh, looks the the mirror has been fixed. Steve must have gotten it fixed yesterday 😉
Are they a sponsor or something? Why not make daily announcements for other random payware?
It would be cool to have a unix version… even if the code and features dont match gcc, it compiles a LOT faster than it. From what I noticed on the newsgroups, they’d rather port the runtime than making it compatible with the current ones and tools, which I think is a shame.
Grow up.
You might say that we are a busy company. Your “pay ware” is way off the mark in this case as Open Watcom is 100% FREE, with all the support costs currently being covered by SciTech.
We are working on the Linux version, and in fact the current development sources allow you to compile the the make program, compilers and tools (even the debugger!) for Linux. Right now it only works with the Watcom runtime library. However the fact that we are not ‘yet’ working on getting Open Watcom to work with glibc is simply due to lack of time and features in the compiler. We do not yet have any support for position independant code, which is necessary in order to build compatibility with GNU C/C++. This is not to say we would not like to see this happen in the future, but initially to get all the Open Watcom components *themselves* working on Linux, we need to first get the Open Watcom runtime library ported across. Most of the runtime stuff is actually done now though.
Basically what it comes down to is that this is an Open Source project, and most of the work is done by volunteers. Hence if you would really like to see support for glibc and compatibility with GNU C in the project, help us out! We can always use more programmers on this project 😉
Last time I read, the Open Watcom license forbids commercial use of the compiler, is it still the case?
I just read the license and see no such clause. It is GPL-like in that you must release the source code to deployed modifications, and you can’t relicense it under a less protective license. What are you referring to?
Is it worth studing the sources in order to work on another C+somthing_else compiler that may be a mix of opensource & commercial (ie Qt like license) or am I opening myself to problems? Currently using the lcc Hanson book which seems to be pretty good. Just don’t want to be SCOed.
Does it come with an IDE? Is there an IDE that supports it?
-magg