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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:18:38 -0500
>>From: Joe Wright <joewwright AT comcast DOT net>
>>
>>I can implement Harbour under DJGPP rather than MinGW for example. 
>>Were you me, which would you choose? Why?
> 
> 
> Having Harbour support a DJGPP build could be a good idea regardless
> of whether MinGW is supported, because it is much easier to install a
> fully functional DJGPP development environment than it is to create a
> fully functional MinGW development environment.
> 
> As to which one of DJGPP or MinGW should be chosen as the main or only
> build on Microsoft platforms, that depends on 2 factors: (1) what is
> the OS most users use it, and (2) whether support for Windows features
> such as drag-n-drop, clipboard, and native languages is important.  If
> both of these two factors lean towards Windows 2000 and XP (as opposed
> to DOS and Windows 9X), then MinGW is probably a better bet.

Thanks Eli,

Although Client uses Win2K, none of our current C or Clipper tools 
know anything about Windows. Moving from Clipper to *Harbour is 
interesting for me, developer, but of no concern of Client, who 
doesn't want to know what we're talking about.

My C and Clipper DOS programs are handled nicely by ntvdm.exe under 
Windows 2K. Why not under XP?

I will renew my DJGPP to the latest (204?) and then build xHarbour 
with that. Thanks again.

-- 
Joe Wright                            mailto:joewwright AT comcast DOT net
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                     --- Albert Einstein ---

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