# Welcome to Open Watcom v2!

For information about how to build Open Watcom from source see the [`Build`](Build) file.

Overview
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This project is a friendly fork of [`Open Watcom`](http://www.openwatcom.org/). The primary
purpose of this fork is to forward development on 64 bit support in the Open Watcom tools. We
are interested in both creating tools that are themselves 64 bit executables and also that can
generate and manipulate 64 bit code. However, all reasonable contributions intended to improve
or extend Open Watcom are also welcome.

We owe a debt of thanks for all the work done on Open Watcom over the years by contributors too
numerous to name here. Without their efforts Open Watcom would not be where it is today. We hope
to continue developing and improving Open Watcom in the same tradition.

This project uses automated build infrastructure of GitHub and use GitHub Workflow to control
build process.
New build is started after each change in OW Git repository. It is build by
[`Github Actions`](https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/releases/tag/Last-CI-build).

One per day if any change
[`OW Current Build Release`](https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/releases/tag/Current-build)
is created. It contains appropriate sources, all installers and full OW build snapshot for download.

One per month releases (if any change) is stored on Github
[`OW Monthly Release`](https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/releases)

Older [`Binary installers`](https://sourceforge.net/projects/openwatcom/files/) of this version of Open Watcom
can be downloaded from SourceForge.

Bug reports, enhancement requests, and related discussion should be done on the GitHub site issues
list.

Static code analysis is done by [`Coverity Scan`](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/open-watcom-open-watcom-v2).
