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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: rylan AT inbtekom DOT co DOT za, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:37:05 +0000
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Subject: Re: Largest DJGPP project
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"Rylan" <rylan AT intekom DOT co DOT za> wrote:

> Sorry to yap so much, but of the people reading this, what is the largest
> DJGPP project you know about as regards total source size, generated code
> size and total executable file size? Quake must have been quite sizable.

Quake is relative small.

> What other projects do you know about where DJGPP is used for really large
> scale stuff? 

You can find huge things in the v2gnu directory and in the TeX tree. Perhaps 
Emacs is the largest. (Eli?).
Now if you want to know about projects started with djgpp an made for djgpp 
then RHIDE is one of the largest. My code (the editor and help) is over than 
600Kb (source), the TVision port have more than 200 object files and you must 
add the rest of the IDE. To make it more complex add gdb for RHIDE and PCRE, 
ZLib, LibAMP and Allegro are used by SET Edit (never tried to make a RHIDE 
with all the SET Edit functionallity inside).

> I am trying to decide if DJGPP might be THE way to go since it
> is free, but if it might offer better return if I buy Watcom or something
> for big multi-source multi-executable projects.

Hmmm... Watcom is clearly faster for compiling. I think it depends on the 
money incolved in the project and you can invest the Watcom cost in hardware 
too.
DJGPP can handle really huge projects 

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