Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:14:34 03/02/00
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On March 02, 2000 at 03:17:25, JW de Kort wrote:
>Hello chess friends,
>
>a few eeks ago i asked a question about MFC. After a few weeks of studie i still
>do not understand how to use MFC so i decided this is to difficult for me. Still
>i want to upgrade from my old Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler. Can anybody tell me wich
>compiler i should use. The compiler should have the following charateristics;
>
>- easy to operate
>- Preferabel C, not C++ (my chess program is not object oriented)
>- windows compatible
>
>PLEASE HELP!!!
I would recommend you to use the DJGPP compiler. This is the DOS port of the
famous GNU C compiler (it handles C and C++).
I personally use version 2.7.x and RHIDE 1.3. RHIDE is an integrated environment
that looks exactly like the Turbo C++ 3 IDE (same keys, same colors, ...). You
will find yourself at home with RHIDE.
The version of GCC I use is not able to produce Pentium optimized code (only 486
optimized). It is however already very fast. After all, Chess Tiger 12.0 DOS has
been able to top the SSDF list with an executable compiled with this old DJGPP!
But there is a new version of GCC, called 2.95.2, that produces Pentium
optimized code (published last month). I have downloaded it, but not installed
yet.
So with DJGPP you get an environment you are familiar with, and a
state-of-the-art optimizing compiler.
It works under DOS, but I think that you can also download Windows-compatible
libraries and produce Win32 executables.
There is also a Windows IDE available for it: VIDE (look somewhere else in this
message board for the subject "free Borland C 5.5 compiler" and you'll find
infos about it).
All of this is free, of high quality (never found any bug in the compiler for
example, when the first version of the Visual C 6.0 was unable to produce
correct code for Tiger), not very big in size (the subset of the compiler I'm
using and the IDE fits on 3 floppy disks), and produce very good code. And this
compiler is available for many different platforms and OS, including Linux (who
knows what the future will be?).
Christophe
>AND: how can i change my email adres for ccc?
>
>
>Jan WIllem
>
>email: j.w.j.dekort@econ.uu.nl
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