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- From: Eric Minor <EricX_Minor@ccm.sc.intel.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Compiling OWL under Visual C++
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 20:20:30 GMT
- Organization: Intel - Internet Engineering Group
- Message-ID: <4cruae$egh@itnews.sc.intel.com>
- References: <1996Jan8.130134.12002@es.dupont.com>
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- > Is it possible to take existing Borland OWL code, throw it into the VC++
- > IDE, compile and run it without modification? I already use OWL and want
- > to jump ship to Visual C++ && MFC and I'm hoping I can support my
- > existing code under the new environment.
- >
-
- You wouldn't be able to simply take your source code and move it
- over. Your source is reliant on the OWL headers and DLL's. At
- the very least you'd need to take the source code for OWL and
- rebuild it under Microsoft's environment. Even then, I think it
- would be a difficult proposition, as their releases are never
- synced up with each other in terms of the C++ features they
- support. For instance, Borland was out with template support and
- exception handling well before Microsoft was. If you do find you
- can easily migrate OWL to Microsoft, I'd be interested to hear
- about it!
-
- -Eric Minor
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