Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:36:31 08/09/00
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On August 10, 2000 at 00:40:46, Adrien Regimbald wrote: [snip] >the Cygnus package is another win32 port of the gcc package, and a lot of people >swear by it. However, I had problems too numerous to mention here in using it, >and the only thing I ever found useful about it were the non compiling utils >included (for the most part, a complete bash shell system). I wouldn't >recommend this to someone starting out. I found it was a snap for me to use, but I always use it from the shell, and I also programmed in UNIX for many years. I really like the Cygwin port of GCC, as it produces excellent code. They have a new install system that makes it particularly easy to install. You can get it from Redhat. [snip] >The Borland package used to be a commercially made IDE for C/C++ development, >until it was made free for the DL. I haven't used the product myself, but from >what I hear, Borland does a good job of its products, and I imagine this would >probably suit most people. Don't bother. You have to fill out an enormous amount of highly personal information, and then you get the compiler only with no IDE. It is hard to configure and the binaries it produces are nothing to shout about. I think MS VC++ makes the best binaries, but GCC will do very well at times, and even outperforms MS VC++ in very rare circumstances (never with a chess program from what I have tried, though). A bit thumb down on this one. [snip]
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