Re: compiler questions

[Lionel Pinkhard <lionelp@worldonline.co.za>]

Hi,

I couldn't agree with you more. But you should also note that with DJGPP,
make sure that you actually have all the neccesary archives, I know this
sounds silly, but I once got a copy of DJGPP on a magazine cover disk
(rather not mention the name), and it didn't have the compiler ITSELF!!!
It had the assembler and stuff, but not the actual compiler, but if you
used the Zip Picker, everything should be fine. But just make sure... it
happened to me, it could happen to you :-).

Caio,

Lionel

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Neil wrote:

> > Hi, I was just wondering what compiler I should start out using first for
> 
> > c++. Right now, I've downloaded DJGPP, though I'm not using it because I 
> > don't know how(which is another question), but I'm wondering wether I
> should 
> > use a Dos compiler, like DJGPP, or windows, like Borland c++ builder. I
> know 
> > both are free, which that is important to me, hehe, but I'm wondering
> what 
> > would be the wisest way to go.  Someone said that starting out with Dos
> game 
> > programming would be better due to the fact that you could learn the 
> > low-level stuff first and then use something like DirectX which does a
> lot 
> > of the work for you. If that's true, I wouldn't mind doing Dos first
> because 
> > I, personally, like doing things that way(learning how to do something 
> > first, and then taking advantage of the easy-to-use features a program or
> 
> > library, like DirectX, may provide). All in all, right now I have two
> main 
> > questions:
> 
> Why settle for either? Keep both of them. :] I know that sometimes I want
> to work with Windows, and somtimes with DOS. I'd suggest that you start
> with DOS because, like you said, if you use all the shortcuts (or detours)
> of Windows then you won't start of with a good understanding of what they
> are actually doing beneath the transparent implementation. With DOS, you
> learn from the ground up. It becomes more difficult to write more complex
> programs with DOS than Windows because Windows has so much of the stuff
> that would take so long to program already implemented.
> 
> I think that this might be the easiest way to get started with DJGPP (after
> reading the readme's and following their instructions to set it up):
> 
> gcc file1.c file2.c file3.c -o output.exe
> 
>  . . which should (if I remember correctly) compile file[1, 2, and 3].c
> into output.exe. Make sure that you add the djgpp/bin directory to your
> PATH so that this will work in any directory, not just djgpp/bin.
> 
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