BUILDING FILEMANAGER/2 (FM/2)

This document explains how to build FM/2 from source.

Tools
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The following tools are currently used to build the FM/2 binaries

OpenWatcom V1.6 or newer
IBM Developers Toolkit v4.5
lxlite LX compressor

Older versions of the Toolkit may work. The OpenWatcom implementation of the Toolkit should work. There are no known special setup requirements.

Not all versions of RC.EXE are created equal. Currently, the best version to use is

12-18-97 6:01 868,000 0 RC.EXE

which reports itself as

IBM RC (Resource Compiler) Version 5.00.002 Dec 18 1997

and it is available from

<​ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/warpzilla/os2tk40rc.zip>

You can get LXLITE.EXE from

<​http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lxlite&pushbutton=Search>

You can get OpenWatcom from

<​http://www.openwatcom.org>

Building
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Use subversion to pull a copy of the source code distribution into your client workspace. See

<​http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2>

for instructions on how to do this.

All build commands must be run from inside the Trunk directory containing the source code.

Build the release version with

wmake

Build the debug version with

wmake DEBUG=1

or

set DEBUG=1 wmake

The build outputs are:

av2.exe
databar.exe
dirsize.exe
eas.exe
fm3.exe
fm4.exe
global.exe
ini.exe
killproc.exe
sysinfo.exe
undel.exe
vcollect.exe
vdir.exe
viewinfs.exe
vtree.exe

dll\fm3dll.dll
dll\fm3res.dll

dll\fm3res.str

dll\ipf\fm3.hlp

internal\mkstr.exe

Compressing Dlls and Exes:
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Lxlite.exe needs to be in a directory listed in the PATH statement of your config.sys or build enviroment cmd file.

To compress exe/dlls, run

wmake lxlite

Release Packaging
================

FM/2 is released as a WarpIN package.

The basic process is

wmake wpi

See

<​http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/wiki/WPIBuild>

for more details.

About FM/2
=========

FM2 was originally written by

Mark Kimes <hectorplasmic@…>

He has kindly allowed us to take over maintenance and support of FM/2 and to release the program under the GNU GPL license. I'm sure he would appreciate a Thank You note for his generosity.

Support
======

FM/2 is a Netlabs project. The project URL is

<​http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2>

The user support mailing list is

<​mailto:fm2-user@netlabs.org>

Like all Netlabs mailing list, this is mirrored to gmane.

In addition the maintainers, monitor the comp.os.os2.programmer.misc newsgroup and others in the comp.os.os2.* hierarchy.

There is also an archived Yahoo group at

​http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fm2/

The list is closed to new posts, but contains some useful info.

If all else fails, you can always e-mail me directly at

Steven H. Levine steve53@…

Thanks and enjoy.

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