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Compiling VC++ code on mingW.

2002-12-12
2012-09-26
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Ive heard from a developer that he was having problems to make his source code (made with vc++) be compilable using DEV-CPP cause mingw doesnt support some windows controls stuff.

    Is it really true?

     
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      He probably used MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) for the controls, instead of plain old Win32 API. MFC is proprietary (as far as I know), so it's not available for Dev-C++/Mingw. I think.

       
    • Curtis Sutter

      Curtis Sutter - 2002-12-12

      My guess as well.

      Curtis

      Moral of the story:  Visual Crap and standards (Dev) don't mix.

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      There's no MFC form Dev-C++ but there is wxWindows :) which is free. Many people say that porting MFC to wxWindows isn't that hard and it's worth of time that you spend on rewriting the code. Ever tryed compiling MFC on Linux ? Go to http://www.wxwindows.org and you'll see what I mean ;)

      regards kr33z

       

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