X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:18:17 -0600 Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:18:51 -0500 From: Joe Wright User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Harbour References: <01c4d461$Blat.v2.2.2$f1fe2f20 AT zahav DOT net DOT il> In-Reply-To: <01c4d461$Blat.v2.2.2$f1fe2f20@zahav.net.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.143.13.12 X-Trace: sv3-z63oA2rJ5WR4sdCM0AQAx6ryLEybCdbnnUq2TknDgk30F6vARfTgn72l5KHFb0hW7jufAWMPndYc2R5!xqmQF8g1+J4gnXOoW6pgGVQF1Mhi74hgvS+ubyofN5iUQ9lXwm8YsebMpmwh X-Complaints-To: abuse AT comcast DOT net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca AT comcast DOT net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.20 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:18:38 -0500 >>From: Joe Wright >> >>I can implement Harbour under DJGPP rather than MinGW for example. >>Were you me, which would you choose? Why? > > > Having Harbour support a DJGPP build could be a good idea regardless > of whether MinGW is supported, because it is much easier to install a > fully functional DJGPP development environment than it is to create a > fully functional MinGW development environment. > > As to which one of DJGPP or MinGW should be chosen as the main or only > build on Microsoft platforms, that depends on 2 factors: (1) what is > the OS most users use it, and (2) whether support for Windows features > such as drag-n-drop, clipboard, and native languages is important. If > both of these two factors lean towards Windows 2000 and XP (as opposed > to DOS and Windows 9X), then MinGW is probably a better bet. Thanks Eli, Although Client uses Win2K, none of our current C or Clipper tools know anything about Windows. Moving from Clipper to *Harbour is interesting for me, developer, but of no concern of Client, who doesn't want to know what we're talking about. My C and Clipper DOS programs are handled nicely by ntvdm.exe under Windows 2K. Why not under XP? I will renew my DJGPP to the latest (204?) and then build xHarbour with that. Thanks again. -- Joe Wright mailto:joewwright AT comcast DOT net "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." --- Albert Einstein ---