#550 Auto detect Borland C/C++ 5.5

[Krishnan Aishwarya]

Kindly provide the features of automatic detection of compiler & automatic configuration of that compiler as in c free IDE. It is very small in size detects all supportable compiler and configure automatically eg I am using borland compiler 5.5 . In India all persons uses borland compiler so plz kindly make your IDE compatible for borland compiler

[Teodor Petrov]

Generally it should be possible to implement this feature using the configuration files (search and inspect the xml files in the installation).

If you're interested in support for this ancient compiler, you'll have to provide patches that improve codeblocks. I don't think anyone of the dev team is interested in using this compiler.

[Krishnan Aishwarya]

Sorry sir I am not a developer so i cant provides the patches but here i am provide you some links of compiler etc so plz have a look & plz support Indian people by providing the features. Although your ide has a feature to use borland compiler & it is detect automaticlaay but it has to be configure manually but in case of c free ide it has to done automatically by ide

Here are the links

Borland compiler 5.5
http://altd.embarcadero.com/download/bcppbuilder/freecommandLinetools.exe

C Free Ide with key

http://freedailyusesoftwares.blogspot.in/2014/08/c-free-50-serial-key.html

[Krishnan Aishwarya]

Plz reply on this

[bluehazzard]

i don't understand why it should not get auto detected. If i start the installer of the compiler the default installation path is c:\borland\bcc55 and codeblocks searches in

        <Search registry="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Borland\C++Builder\5.0"
                value="RootDir"/>
        <Search path="C:\Borland\BCC55"/>
        <Search registry="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Borland\BDS\4.0"
                value="RootDir"/>
        <Search path="%ProgramFiles%\Borland\BDS\4.0"/>
        <Fallback path="C:\Borland\BCC55"/>

so it should get detected fine.
And where is the problem to do it manually?

[Krishnan Aishwarya]

On compile of programs it give error message

[Teodor Petrov]

http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php/FAQ-Compiling_(errors)#Q:_How_do_I_troubleshoot_a_compiler_problem.3F

If you find a command that is not correct, we could change it.

But as I said no developer uses bcc, so we cannot fix problems with it.
We need contributions from users that care for this compiler!

[Krishnan Aishwarya]

when will be your new version will come & what are the new features . plz kindly provide some features of dev c++

[Miguel Gimenez]

I use(d) it and it is detected OK (I have not used it from C::B, though).

Use the default path when installing.