From: "Smith A. Cat" <imbe AT primenet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: watcom vs DJGPP/Allegro
Date: 17 May 1997 13:58:03 -0700
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Rob W wrote:

> I would be interested too, however I am using Watcom and can't use
> Allegro.  Is DJGPP really as good as people have said!?  Last time I
> looked I couldn't even get it installed properly.
> 
> (but then that could be me.)

I have been using watcom, and have been migrating to DJGPP/RSXNT for the
last month.  the learning curve is steep, but the ready availability of
free libraries of obvious superiority to those available for watcom
makes 
it an easy call. (i will say, however, that serial io stuff for DJGPP
seems somewhat less developed, apparently a artifact of it's UNIX
origin. the pcl4c library under watcom is nice.)

DJGPP installs itself. just pkunzip -d it! definitely get the latest
RHIDE release, (the beta from the home page has the nasty mouse bug
fixed (the one where viewing the output screen lost the cursor...)) get
the link from DJ's links page:
 
http://www.delorie.com/

i have had no problem compiling anything (including Allegro) even with
a very pared down DJGPP distribution (delete the makefile lines
referring to "setup" in the Allegro makefile if you do not want to
install C++)!

while you are still a watcomnik, you should get the PDCurses 2.3
distribution from ftp://ftp.xylogics.com/ (they say beta, i say stable!)
so you can see what your missing! (curses is standard in GCC).  the
pdcurs23 stuff compiles right out of the box for watcom.


phil