Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/17/17:27:21
Reply to message 5564334 from ALLENP AT NIMA DOT E on 06/17/96 6:35AM
>3) Would Windows compilers like MSVC or Borland C++ for windows ease
> my porting pains? (Mostly getting a shareware tiff library written
> with ANSI C working).
Eli answered your first two questions fairly well, but I'd like to add a
comment
to the third: Borland and Microsoft do NOT do a very good job of Unix
compatibility AFAIK. In DJGPP, even when Unix functions are not supported
by the DOS environment (like fork()), they still exist for portability
purposes.
>I suspect getting GCC would be the best way to go, but I was hoping for some
>input from some more experienced folk.
Most likely so. Even the command-line format is the same as the Unix
versions of the same packages, so you don't have to worry about the
peculiarities of a given IDE. That said, there are some user-developed
IDEs out there like RHIDE that provide an excellent programming
interface. So you have the best of both worlds. :)
John
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