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From: "robert bowman" <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:58:47 -0700
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From: <walt121 AT my-dejanews DOT com>
>
> (LCC is a port of gcc to Win 95, and is  free, but no longer supported.)
Why do I use
> LCC?  Because I didn't have to  struggle with it.  Its installer worked
correctly, the first
> time.

Actually, Jacob Navia updated the binaries to fix a bug in make.exe just
this morning, and there is an active newgroup, comp.compiler.lcc, devoted to
it. There is a charge for the source to offset some of the expenses, US$40
iirc, but the executables and documentation are free.

It is a clean solution, as is the Pacific package for non-GUI C. If I see a
post  "I have never programmed in my life, can barely find the 'on' switch,
but have heard about this 'C' stuff and would like to try it", I'll gently
point them to Pacific, while mentioning djgpp as the next step when the
training wheels come off.

The setup problem is not unique to djgpp. Before JDK1.2, setting the
classpath stopped most Java newbies in their tracks, and the most popular
question is still "where can I find an IDE?"