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Open Watcom V2.0 - Source code repository, Wiki, Latest Binary build, Archived builds including all installers for download.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2016-07-24 · latest 2026-10-01

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  1. …Jiří Malák (the main v2 dev) is doing a herculean job maintaining and improving it. [0] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
    comment by badsectoracula · 2026-10-01 · in EDG C++ front-end goes public
  2. …possibly fixing that, but I do not know how on track that is (or how much it matters, in practice): https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/discussions/27...
    comment by 1313ed01 · 2025-11-02 · in Writing FreeDOS Programs in C
  3. …the OpenWatcom license, preventing it from being included in Debian and possibly other places. https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/discussions/27...
    comment by 3036e4 · 2025-08-19 · in MS-DOS development resources
  4. …(I use 3 for D too) 4. I would like to add to your guide compiling with OpenWatcom V2 ( https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2 ) 5. Cygwin they have latest GCC 15 in testing 6. Winlibs or equation.com mingw distros
    comment by fithisux · 2025-06-07 · in Getting C++ Hello World working on Windows (a comedy & tragedy)
  5. …although I found it more trouble to set up. [0] https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-c/30 [1] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2 [2] https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
    comment by mezentius · 2024-09-05 · in Ask HN: Any Recommendations Around Programming on an iPad?
  6. You may want give OpenWatcom a try. Some folks are still working on it. https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2 In terms of ISO-complianceness, perhaps don't expect much. It basically C89 (the C99 support is still incomplete), and…
    comment by anta40 · 2024-01-18 · in DJGPP
  7. …which is an actively developed[0] C and C++ compiler that targets 16bit DOS (among others). [0] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
    comment by badsectoracula · 2023-08-29 · in DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes
  8. …+ Jwlink[3]. Back in time I did a fork[4] of JWasm that has cleaner build system (CMake). [1] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2 [2] https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/JWasm [3] https://github.com/JWasm/JWlink [4]…
    comment by xvilka · 2022-12-25 · in Win16 Retro Development
  9. OpenWatcom is under a license that isn't considered free enough under the FSD/OSD/DFSG. https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/blob/master/li...
    comment by pabs3 · 2022-01-30 · in How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)
  10. …for OpenWatcom, which is what I originally asked about, was 4 hours ago[1] at time of writing. [1]: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/commit/ac10ed3... (FWIW: I'm in agreement with you that DMC++ is likely superior, I'm more…
    comment by messe · 2022-01-30 · in How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)
  11. …developers who, at least according to the perforce logs, was the most active pre-fork anyway) https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2 should also support 8086.
    comment by badsectoracula · 2020-01-22 · in Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
  12. …486 was made with that. [0] https://love2d.org/ [1] https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution [2] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
    comment by n3k5 · 2019-12-12 · in Software Library: MS-DOS Games
  13. You could also use OpenWatcom, I think. https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
    comment by ofrzeta · 2019-10-02 · in Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386
  14. …Watcom v2[1], which is still actively developed. Also the JWasm[2] - FOSS alternative to MASM. [1] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2 [2] https://GitHub.com/JWasm/JWasm
    comment by xvilka · 2019-06-28 · in FreeDOS's Linux Roots
  15. I had an issue about the problems: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/issues/271
    comment by yuhong · 2018-05-23 · in Consider using Digital Mars C compiler
  16. …this to be provided by Win32. * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/redirecting-standard-io.html#SystemAPIW... * https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/blob/e5a5cab04... * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/251215/5132 *…
    comment by JdeBP · 2018-04-14 · in Fuchsia is not Linux
  17. …OpenWatcom [1], which can generate code for DOS and runs from all mainstream operating systems. [1] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
    comment by xvilka · 2018-02-19 · in Project: 2ine – OS/2 emulator for Linux
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    Change the license of Open Watcom
    story by yuhong · 2016-07-24 · 0 comments
  19. …VirtualBox had to be moved to contrib. I have posted an GitHub issue about changing the license: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/issues/271
    comment by yuhong · 2016-07-24 · in Emulate “leal” instruction to workaround x86emu bugs [2015]