From: mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu (Mark H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Is DJGPP just as good as Borland C++
Message-ID: <1997Jan21.143102.27719@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 97 14:31:02 -0500
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970120201831 DOT 10551A-100000 AT bert DOT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>, Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu> writes:
> Get Borland C++ 5.0 or VC++ (v?) or even Visual Basic.

Nah.  Use RSXNTDJ.  Find it in the same place you got DJGPP.  It makes console
or GUI app.s with equal ease.  (There are some bugs in the ancillary tools, and
you can't link .DLLs yet, but under '95 you only need to break up into .DLLs to
share object code between app.s, not for memory management (mis)reasons.)

You still use DJGPP to compile the code, but you link it with the RSXNT
libraries and pass the object through a gadget that converts it to MS COFF and
decorates it with all the stuff that Win95 expects to see.

> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Alan Wilson wrote:
> 
>> At 09:40 PM 1/17/97 -0800, you wrote:
>> >Alan Wilson wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thanks for the info.  I definitely want to learn to write large programs
>> >> with graphics.  I can use DJGPP to write good graphical Win 95 programs
>> right?
>> >
>> >Sorry, but no.  DJGPP does not produce Windows 95 code.  The programs
>> >you write with DJGPP will run under Win95 since Win95 provides a DPMI
>> >environment (which DJGPP requires), but the resulting programs are still
>> >DOS programs.
>> >
>> 
>> I see.  So what do I use if I wanted to write Win 95 programs?  If not
>> DJGPP, than what?
>> 
>> Alan Wilson
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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