Platform Notes (OS/2) - Revision history

Smw at 16:56, 10 April 2025

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Building and Installing

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Verified Releases

Smw at 21:20, 24 March 2025

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Smw at 14:41, 24 March 2025

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Smw: Created page with "{{DevBranchFeature}} == Port Status == OS/2 is a Tier 2 Port == Verified Releases == * FreeM cvs-current (23 Mar 2025) == Testing Details == We build and test the OS/2..."

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Created page with "{{DevBranchFeature}} == Port Status == OS/2 is a Tier 2 Port == Verified Releases == * FreeM cvs-current (23 Mar 2025) == Testing Details == We build and test the OS/2..."

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== Port Status ==
OS/2 is a [[Tier 2 Port]]

== Verified Releases ==
* FreeM cvs-current (23 Mar 2025)

== Testing Details ==

We build and test the OS/2 port on an ArcaOS 5.1 VM running in VirtualBox.

== Required Kernel Tuning ==
Coming soon.

[[Category: Tier 2 Ports]]
[[Category: Platform Notes]]

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 <pre>
 [C:\] bash
-$ autoreconf --install  # only needed if installing from the CVS repo
+$ export EMXOMFLD_TYPE=WLINK
-$ ./configure CC=gcc GREP=grep
+$ export EMXOMFLD_LINKER=wl.exe
-$ make
+$ ./autogen.sh  # only needed if installing from the CVS repo
 $ make install
 $ fmadm configure

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	== Verified Releases ==		== Verified Releases ==
		+	* FreeM 0.62.3 (27 Mar 2025)
	* FreeM cvs-current (23 Mar 2025)		* FreeM cvs-current (23 Mar 2025)

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 Under OS/2 and ArcaOS, FreeM binaries are installed under <code>C:\USR\LOCAL\BIN</code>, but the FreeM daemon and the FreeM interpreter cannot be launched from the same executable (the daemon will start, but interpreters will give an error resembling <code>Resource busy</code>).
-* Copy <code>C:\USR\LOCAL\BIN\freem.exe</code> to <code>C:\USR\LOCAL\BIN\freemd.exe</code>
+The <code>fmadm configure</code> (and <code>fmadm reconfigure</code>) commands will automatically copy <code>C:\USR\LOCAL\BIN\freem.exe</code> to <code>C:\USR\LOCAL\BIN\freemd.exe</code>.
 == Running ==
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 * <code>JOB</code> does not work
 * Terminal windows are fixed in size to 80x24
-* The FreeM daemon must be launched in the foreground, as <code>fork()</code> is unsupported here
+* The FreeM daemon must be launched in the foreground, as <code>fork()</code> is unsupported here (<code>freemd.exe</code> will refuse to launch if you do not pass the <code>-k</code> or <code>--nofork</code> flags).
 * Network sockets functionality is unavailable
 * Building without <code>readline</code> causes direct mode to echo each line of code entered

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 $ make
 $ make install
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 == Platform Limitations ==
 == Required Kernel Tuning ==

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 == Port Status ==
 OS/2 is a [[Tier 2 Port]]
 == Verified Releases ==
 * FreeM 0.62.3 (27 Mar 2025)
 * FreeM cvs-current (23 Mar 2025)

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 == Testing Details ==
-We build and test the OS/2 port on an ArcaOS 5.1 VM running in VirtualBox.
+Once this is done, proceed to the next section.
 == Required Kernel Tuning ==