In any case, a C compiler is not required.
To be more precise:
.INF
and .HLP
files, you need IBM's "Information Presentation Facility Compiler" (IPFC.EXE
).
This thing is part of the OS/2 Developer's Toolkit, which, unfortunately, still
isn't free. However, I have now found that IPFC is contained in the
Device Driver Development Kit (DDK), which IBM has put online at
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/dl/ddk/priv/ddk-d.
You will need to register, but then downloads are free. Download combase.zip
,
which has IPFC plus a number of other tools. (Note: I was reportes that apparently
this is now in tools.zip
.) After unpacking, IPFC is in the
DDK\base\tools
directory, which you should include in your PATH.
The makefiles are only for conveniently updating the target NLS files. If you don't have NMAKE, you can still assemble the files manually. See the following pages for details.
.MSG
things). Instead, we have developed a new format which uses plain text ASCII
files (with a .TMF
extension) as input, so MKMSGF.EXE
is no longer needed to compile message files.