GCC 9 Has Been Ported to OS/2

Bitwise works has completed the porting of the GCC 9.2 compiler set for the OS/2 operating system and platforms based on this OS ArcaOS and eComStation. Previously, GCC 4.9.2 was offered for ArcaOS, but GCC 8.3.0 was available in the OS/2 ports. GCC 8.3.0. It is noted that the capability to use GCC 9 will allow the community to adapt more applications and libraries for OS/2, including Qt 5, Poppler, and CMake, which do not support building with GCC 4. Additionally, new versions of packages such as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7, libusb1, sane-backends, xmltoman, pthread, libdaemon, fontconfig, zip, libunistring, libidn2, wget, and libtool are reported to be in preparation for OS/2. has been published The code for the GCC 9.2 variant for OS/2 is available on GitHub under the GPLv2 license.

Source: opennet.ru