Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" Organization: INTI To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire), djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:54:24 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Watcom or Djgpp Precedence: bulk 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. SET ------------------------------------ 0 -------------------------------- Visit my home page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Alternative e-mail: set-sot AT usa DOT net - ICQ: 2951574 Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA TE: +(541) 759 0013