From:	"John Meyer" <john_meyer AT geocities DOT com>
To:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Beginner help: Borland c++ and DJGPP
Date:	Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:39:09 -0600
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However easy it is to make Windows programs using DJGPP, it is a thousand
times easier to do so in Borland.  Borland C++, and more specifically, VCL,
provide a fairly easy to learn frameworks within which you can develop
Windows programs.
Both are very good programs, and neither is completely exclusive of the
other (you don't have to choose one or the other to reside on your hard
drive).

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil [mailto:Email AT address DOT sometimes DOT in DOT message DOT body]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:01 PM
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Beginner help: Borland c++ and DJGPP


Hi,

I started to work through a book called 'First Course in C++' [Mark
Harman] using DJGPP as my compiler. However, I've just flicked through a
book in a cheap shop which supplys 'Borland C++ Builder' software and
explains how to use it as well as a rudimentary course on  C++. It
seemed to me to be much easier to use this software to create Windows
programs which have GUI boxes, forms, windows, icons, etc. My current
book doesn't explain any of that, and the programs I create are executed
in a plain old DOS box.

Can anyone tell me the advantages and disadvantages of using Borland (I
don't even know what this is; a langauge or a company?), and if I can
easily create Windows GUI's using DJGPP?

Thanks.
Phil.

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