From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Compiler for WfW 3.11 and Win32s (v1.30)
Date: 19 Nov 2002 13:17:27 GMT
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Michelle Konzack <dos DOT mailinglists AT freenet DOT de> wrote:

> Because I do not like DOS-Boxes in Windows, I am looking for a free 
> Compiler for 16 Bit with Win32s extensin. Does anyone know one ? 

DJGPP with RSXNTDJ, or MinGW32, or Cygwin all should do.  

But note that none of these compilers will run on Win16+Win32s,
because Win32s lacks support of win32 console applications.  So you
need at least a Win95 box to run those compilers.  The later, the more
stable, up to about NT4 and 98SE --- ME, 2K and XP cause more problems
than they solve.  The compiled programs should usually work on
Win16+Win32s if you avoid API functions that aren't available there.

> I do not like to programm a second source-code for the same program...

You will most certainly have to, to a rather large extent.  Windows
source code is a whole lot different from all other platforms.  To
begin with, your programs won't even have a main() function as their
starting point.  They won't have a stdin, stdout or stderr channel,
either, so you can't debug using simple printf() or
fprintf(stderr,...) statements.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.