Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 14:40:55 02/25/00
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On February 25, 2000 at 17:33:58, Heiko Mikala wrote: >On February 25, 2000 at 17:20:12, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On February 25, 2000 at 17:01:15, Heiko Mikala wrote: >> >>>Hi everybody! >>> >>>Great news for all programmers of freeware chess engines (and all the other >>>C/C++ programmers too): >>> >>>Borland just released the new version of it's C/C++ compiler for free download >>>from their web-site (www.borland.com)!!! It's only the command line tools and >>>the normal runtime-library and STL, no IDE included, no MFC or VCL library, but >>>nevertheless you get everything you need to build fullblown windows >>>applications. >> >>Are you sure you can build it without debugger? > >Ok, i just visited Borlands newsgroup >'borland.public.cppbuilder.commandlinetools' and the missing debugger seems to >be one of the most often heard complaints about this free compiler. > >No, I wouldn't develop a huge application or a chess program without a debugger, >you are right on this. Nevertheless I would maybe use the Borland compiler to >build the release version of my programs. As far as I know, there are a lot of >chess programmers out there, who don't own a full-blown commercial IDE including >a debugger but instead use gcc and gdb in some form. The Borland compiler *may* >be a good alternative for them to build faster executables. I'm not sure about >this of course, since I didn't test the compiler yet. Code quality is not among strong points of Borland compiler. I suspect that even GCC would produce the better executable, if you'll use not outdated version. Eugene >Nevertheless I think this free release is remarkable. Would be nice to see >Microsoft do the same ;-) (maybe including a debugger?) > > >Greetings, > >Heiko. > >P.S.: > >Just found this one: > >Here's a free IDE for the Borland compiler (but still without a debugger): >http://www.objectcentral.com/vide.htm
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