Fw: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32

Fw: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32

[Joshua Little]

-----Original Message-----
From: Gunther Ebert <gunther.ebert@ixos-leipzig.de>
To: Joshua J Little <ulittj00@mcl.ucsb.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32


>Hi,
>
>I would also prefer lcc rather than gcc/mingw32 but lcc lacks
>C++. I don't know of any other disadvantages.
>
>Gunther
>
>Joshua J Little wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone out there have any experience with the c compiler lcc for
>> compiling vanilla win32 C code?  It seems to make much smaller
>> executables, compiles a lot faster, and, at least for the examples in
>> Petzold's "Programming Windows 95," it compiles the code pretty much
right
>> out-of-the-box, unlike mingw32 or gnuwin32.  Are there any disadvantages
>> to it that anyone knows of?  Any advice anyone can offer?
>>         Thanks in advance for the help.
>>
>> Josh Little
>> ulittj00@mcl.ucsb.edu
>>
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Fw: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32

[Joshua Little]

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro A. Aranda Gutiirrez <paag@tid.es>
To: Joshua J Little <ulittj00@mcl.ucsb.edu>
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32


>Hi,
>
>I've taken all the weekend to go through pro's and con's of both
>solutions and here are my thoughts. I hope they help you
>
>LCC+
>a) LCC is better at Petzold's examples
>b) exceptions are supported on LCC
>c) the headers are somehow more complete on LCC
>
>LCC-
>a) LCC chokes on GNU code quite frequently
>b) Forget about recompiling a whole GNU project
>c) The auxiliary tools are somewhat poor.
>
>GCC+
>a) It doesn't take too much to have LCC's WIN32 headers working with GCC
>
>b) Recompiling GNU utilities is quite easy, even with the MINGW32
>toolchain
>c) You should have more or less everything you already know from your
>workstation
>
>GCC-
>a) Exception support on plain vanilla C code is missing
>b) I'd really love to see GCC understanding #pragma pack(), but there is
>a
>sort of fundamentalism in the GNU community against it
>
>Cheers,
>
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Fw: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32

[Joshua Little]

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Peters <colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp>
To: Joshua J Little <ulittj00@mcl.ucsb.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32


>From: Joshua J Little <ulittj00@mcl.ucsb.edu>
>Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 9:29 AM
>
>
>>Does anyone out there have any experience with the c compiler lcc for
>>compiling vanilla win32 C code?  It seems to make much smaller
>>executables, compiles a lot faster, and, at least for the examples in
>>Petzold's "Programming Windows 95," it compiles the code pretty much
>right
>>out-of-the-box, unlike mingw32 or gnuwin32.  Are there any disadvantages
>>to it that anyone knows of?  Any advice anyone can offer?
>
>
>I'm biased of course, and I only used it a little. :-)
>
>Basically the only major disadvantage that I can see is it doesn't do C++.
>I'm spoiled and I can't write code in C anymore without complaining...
>
>I also think there is no debugger (yet)... but there might be one soon.
>I'm also not sure of the status of making DLLs or even static libraries
>with the compiler. Still, it is, as you say, fast, small, and very
>compatible with MS code. It also has a resource editor and compiler built
>in, which is a big lack for mingw32/gnuwin32 at this time. I think it is a
>matter of personal preference, and what you are trying to do, as both
>packages are incomplete right now.
>
>Colin.
>
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>
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Fw: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32

[Joshua Little]

-----Original Message-----
From: root <root@jacob.remcomp.fr>
To: ulittj00@mcl.ucsb.edu <ulittj00@mcl.ucsb.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32


>Hi
>I am the author of lcc-win32. I can recommend you to use.... well you can
>imagine it yourself... :-))
>
>Thanks a lot for your comments! It is exactly the kind of question I like
to
>hear!!! I have worked so much to make lcc small, fast and simple that I am
>very pleased you see it that way
>
>Yours sincerely
>
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