EMX (Eberhard Mattes eXtender; also known as emx+gcc) is a programming environment for MS-DOS and OS/2.J. Martin and H. A. Muller, "C to Java migration experiences," Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2002. Proceedings. Sixth European Conference on, Budapest, 2002, pp. 143-153. doi: 10.1109/CSMR.2002.995799 online It allows creating and executing of 32-bit mode applications, presenting a POSIX API and, on OS/2, access to the OS/2 APIs.
Contents The EMX package consists of:
The emx.exe program, a DOS extender, that allows running a 32-bit mode application and emx.dll and helper dlls in single threaded (for MS-DOS compatibility) and multithreaded forms for running under OS/2. A C library that provides a POSIX API, for use on both DOS and OS/2. Additional libraries for OS/2. Ports of the C and C++ compilers of GNU GCC, the GNU binutils, gdb, GNU make, and other tools for program development. Tools for creating OS/2 shared libraries.
History The latest version is emx 0.9d, released in 1998 and last updated in March 2001.
See also Cygwin DJGPP MinGW
References
External links Main archive emx+gcc download site