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to Epic: re: watcom compilers
Friday, 23-Apr-99 10:41:57

as i said (gthorne's MB, http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb186284&MyNum=924265353&P=Yes&TL=923778321
), watcom 10.5 or 10.6 is the best choice for ix86 processors portability. 10.6 has More things...

but if u want a win32 compatible compiler (or, actualy libraries that come with it), you can use anything from 10.0 upwards. even 11.x, if u have the patience. if u write thy code portably enough, there should not be any problem to compil e it with anything else (whn u find it).
or u may try to find the last MetaWare compiler - they said they support all the windozes now (+ all the unixes u dreamed about)

example: a (G)UI, extremely OO-based was written by me and a friend (or vice versa) for the last 3-4 years (by-the-way of all other things to do). (it worked on any DOS text/DOS-graphics/DOS-extender/ANSI terminal) when it came to port it to windoze, hm, there are now two versions. NON-MFC (using usual lowlevel windoze calls) and MFC. 1st one works 1.5 time faster, and the source written is twice less than second one. But there were some windoze funcs that did not do what they were specified, and therfore some things did not work (example: open 5 windows, then close one of them. as a result u get a handle to some existing but never shown window that YOU DID NOT wanted nor created..).
the MFC port was bigger, slower, and corrected that problem 9 from 10 times. at 1st glance it seems easy to use MFC, but after that.... so... IMO: writing GUI over MFC is not a quick-nor-very-gut job. either invent your way or
try to find some free source library that has common int-face to vindoze/ Xwindows/ whatever

))) never crack a compiler..
really?
damn, it seems to me i should write that long planned CompilerCracking-and-Tweaking essay...

ciao

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