Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/11/03/14:47:42
ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote:
>
> >Watcom: Windows (*) DJGPP: DOS
> ...and Windows (RSXNTDJ), and Win32, and Linux
> (GCC is basically the same for Linux as
> DJGPP on DOS)...
Even when you can do a Win32 EXE with djgpp you must be careful when you say
that djgpp support Windows.
Programming in plain C for Windows is just a nightmare, a simple hello world
program could need 50 or more lines and you'll need to read 2 or more chapters
of a M$ book to understand the 80% of what the program makes. I did it back in
1993 and I learnt to hate Windows.
Nowadays (1997) you can't say that a package supports Windows just because you
can generate code for Windows. Supporting Windows involves:
1) A huge of specific tools and helpers like: icon, bitmaps, menues, acelerators,
etc. editors, help editor and compiler (you can write a help with an ASCII
editor but it will take 1000 times more time).
2) Visual tools to create the GUI elements. You must have a good Dialog Editor
and a good tool to create the flow of your program.
3) Hundreads of very specific tools.
So saying: RSXNTDJ isn't enough. You can generate a Win EXE with djgpp but a
large project? I think you'll spend too much time making things that are much
more easy with Win specific tools.
DJGPP is the best for DOS and UNIX, don't be confused.
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