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EMX (Eberhard Mattes eXtender; also known as emx+gcc) is a programming environment for
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and
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. 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.2002.99579
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/ref> It allows creating and executing of 32-bit mode applications, presenting a
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API and, on
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, access to the
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APIs.


Contents

The EMX package consists of: * The emx.exe program, a
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, that allows running a 32-bit mode application in
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and emx.dll and helper dlls in single threaded (for DOS compatibility) and multithreaded forms for running under
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. * 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
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,
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, GNU make, and other tools for program development. * Tools for creating OS/2
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.


History

The latest version is emx 0.9d, released in 1998 and last updated in March 2001.


See also

* Cygwin * DJGPP *
MinGW MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications. MinGW includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows ...


References


External links


Main emx+gcc download site
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