From: mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu (Mark H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: has anyone had sucess with djgpp and windows yet?
Message-ID: <1997May15.115849.28440@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Date: 15 May 97 11:58:49 -0500
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In article <3373bffc DOT 794311 AT news DOT idt DOT net>, johnp3 AT chelsea DOT ios DOT com (Xyloplax) writes:
> On 9 May 1997 03:51:06 GMT, ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul
> Derbyshire) wrote:
> 
>>
>>Xyloplax (johnp3 AT chelsea DOT ios DOT com) writes:
>>> Since the FAQ leaves a "to be continued" type answer, I would like to
>>> know whether anyone has sucessfully used djgpp and any of the various
>>> utilites suggested in the FAQ to produce windows 3.x and win95/nt
>>> programs?

Yes.  Works great; less filling.  :-)

>>>           I really dont want to have to shell out for Borland or VC++,
>>> though that would make life way easier, if c++ can be easy that is.
>>> Any info appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>>Well, I compiled a sample hello, world MSGBOX with OK button app, and it
>>worked. :)
>>
>>All I have to do now is get decent documentation about windows, SDKs,
>>foundation classes (whatever those are), how to do windows, controls,
>>editing, file I/O, DDE, OLE, and all that jazz in C *without* shelling out
>>a bundle for Visual C++.
> 
> sounds like me!

Petzold's books on Windows programming are a good place to start.  To find out
how things *really* work you could pick up a copy of the MS DeveloperNet
Library CD, probably for quite a bit less than VC++.  (I think we pay $199/yr
for quarterly updates.)

>>I have an older Visual Basic, my major complaints with it were, steep
>>price, tendency of bugless programs to GPF sometimes (bugs in the runtime
>>DLL) and slow execution; but perhaps RSX and VB can be married, with VB
>>making up the front-end for an app, and calling DLL functions written in
>>RSX (which has options for DLL authoring) for speed-critical things such
>>as math, searches, etc.
>>
> this has been done sucessfully. Any GUI maker that generates an .o
> file can be used in this manner. Now to find those tools!

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