Tutorials

From Open Watcom

Contents 1 Overview 2 Open Watcom Development 3 Programming Tutorials 3.1 General 3.2 DLLs 3.3 System programming 4 Linux

Overview

This page will contain links to all the tutorials available on this site. Documents that are intended mainly as reference tools should not go here. However, step by step tutorials that teach you how to do specific tasks should go here.

Open Watcom Development

Here are some tutorials related to Open Watcom Development.

• How to download and configure Perforce client software for accessing the Open Watcom source.
• Compiling Open Watcom by Peter C. Chapin
• Open Watcom 1.4 on Linux with Wine - How to set it up, and a small status/test report.

Programming Tutorials

Here are some tutorials related to programming.

General

• Ever wanted to write makefiles but didn't know how? The wmake tutorial may help.

DLLs

This section deals with the creation and use of DLLs, specifically in win32. Much probably applies to other platforms, but win32 is the target of these tutorials. If someone else contributes tutorials for DLLs on other platforms they should probably go in a separate section.

• Writing a Win32 DLL in Open Watcom

• Calling an Open Watcom DLL From C (to be written)
• Calling a Watcom DLL From C#
• Calling an Open Watcom DLL From Delphi (Someone feel free to contribute)
• Calling an Open Watcom DLL From Visual Basic

System programming

This section deals with system programming under different operating systems.

• PCI Device access under 32-Bit PM DOS
• Accessing the Harddisk using LBA under DPMI

Linux

Anything Linux releated should go here.

• Installing Open Watcom on Linux