Notes on Rebuilding XFree86®/OS2 from Scratch : Tools required
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2. Tools required

I have tried to reduce the number of external tools, but when looking back it seems I were not very successful. At least I managed to get everything working with the native CMD.EXE shell only. However, there is still plenty of software required. Most of this software is available from hobbes.nmsu.edu or ftp.leo.org via anonymous FTP. The following shopping list shows what you will need:

If there is no version number given, any new version will do. Particularly critical is only EMX/gcc and GNU make. Note that the second GCC implementation which might still be available from some archives is NOT compatible.

Furthermore, you need the XFree86 sources. These are available from the common XFree86 repositories. Look into a directory which is often named /pub/XFree86/4.0/source.


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