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- From: Stephen Lindholm <72510.2757@CompuServe.COM>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Free MSDOS C compiler???
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 01:11:59 GMT
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- For DOS, djgpp is not the choice I'd make. It's large, meaning
- that the typical DOS user (it is rare that someone using only DOS
- would have a leased line connection) would have to spend a long
- time online or buy a CD. It isn't quite as up-to-date as "regular"
- gcc. It pretty much requires a system capable of running Unix to
- run it. It's also pokey.
-
- gcc is nice, though, and it's free. I use it on the Unix machines
- I use. At home, though, I use MSVC++ 1.52 ($49.95) on the
- Pentium, which runs rather well and with which I'm rather pleased,
- and Pacific C on the 286.
-
- Pacific C is what I'd recommend for basic C work. It's very
- zippy, almost ANSI C, missing a few of the more esoteric library
- functions, free, 700k compressed, includes the standard suite of
- programs, including IDE, and so on. I believe I found my copy at
- juge.com. It's become phenomenally popular among the C beginners
- around here for these reasons.
-
- The other option for a free C compiler is MicroC, but that's
- somewhat less ANSI than Pacific and isn't as flashy.
-