24 July 2015:
These are my old Open Watcom pages moved here without any change. It is just for my reference.
19 March 2008:
Japheth’s side project: Wasm v1.7j is a fork of Open Watcom’s WASM. The goal is to have a MASM v6 compatible open source version available. http://www.japheth.de/wasm.html
Steven’s wrc beta, works more like IBM rc: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/ticket/131 A better version included in the 1.8 tree? Not sure.
28 March 07
I ran into a problem with getopt where OSs other than those defined __UNIX__ allow an alternate option character “/”. This is in addition to the normal or POSIX option character ” – “. Here is where this is set (getopt.c):
#ifdef __UNIX__
char __altoptchar = ‘-‘;
#else
char __altoptchar = ‘/’; // alternate option character
#endif
This causes the above mawk example to fail, so I do this before getopt() in OS/2:
The solution for non-__UNIX__ OSs is to do this:
extern char __altoptchar;
then:
__altoptchar = ‘-‘;