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Setup Open Watcom compiler suite

Open Watcom is a project of the open source community to maintain and enhance the Watcom C, C++, and Fortran cross compilers and tools. An Open Source license from Sybase allows free commercial and non-commercial use of Open Watcom. More about Open Watcom's features. Details about Open Watcom's history. Work in progress includes Linux and FreeBSD ports, support for new processors, support for new language features and standards, a C++ STL implementation and more.

Download and install

• Download the packages open-watcom-c-win32-1.7a.exe and open-watcom-f77-win32-1.7a.exe from one of the mirrors listed here: http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download. The open-watcom-f77 is only needed if you are interested in Fortran development.
• Install both packages by double-clicking the exe files. For both packages choose the same directory (without a space in the name), e.g. C:\Development\WATCOM or C:\WATCOM. There is no need to change any other settings, if you want to develop for the Windows platform.

Setup

Links

Homepage: http://www.openwatcom.org Download: http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download