How To Use Borland Compiler In Dev-C++ ?
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How To Use Borland Compiler In Dev-C++ ?
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Dev-C++ is not a general programmers editor. It is explicitly built to support the GCC compiler.
Yes, you probably could crosswire is to support Borland, but that is not a supported mode for the compiler, so you expect very little or no help. It is a pioneer type of job. You will be on your own.
There are Free IDE's for Borland available - I strongly recommend going in that direction.
Wayne
Here is a list of free IDE's for Borland:
http://personal.sirma.bg/Jogy/bcc55.html
Wayne
BCC55 is really out of date, you shouldn't use it. But if you by some reason want to do this you should take a look at Vide. This is an open source ide which works great with both MinGW and BCC55.
is there a special reason why u want to use borland?
I have bought borland, and its just collecting dust on the shelf :(
The IDE for Borland is CBuilderX, free to download from Borland. The compiler is from 2002, i.e. old.
I've downloaded it 2 years ago, gave it a try,
even liked it, but abandoned as it is say,
s l o w
(I guess the IDE was written in Java).
One good point about it: it (natively) supportrs gcc!
ZK
I was interested in it because after noticing how much faster it was when compiling the qt-3/free available via the kde-cygwin project. I mean the same job that took BCC55 just over one half hour took almost three hours. So that was my main interest in pursuing that question.
Yes, It compiles fast. But the runtime for the .exe is really slow compared to other up to date compilers, MinGW for example. Besides, it's impossible to get support for this compiler. The only source is a half dead newsgroup, Borland don't answer your questions! This was the pri. reason why I switched to MinGW. I had a big list of questions which I couldn't get answers for. Another drawback with BCC55 is a very forgiving attitude when it comes to typechecking. Ths can give a lot of problems, conversions happens that you are not informed of!!
I think it was a nice action from Borland when they released the free compiler but apparently they have no intention of continue with this. The logic choice as a developer is to not use an old compiler like BCC55. If compile time is critical for you take a look at DigitalMars or M$ CL Tools.
Best of it
Anders
I think CodeBlocks also says that it supports Borland.
Wayne
Hi All,
Another IDE for borland is Visual Windows for BC++.
Visual Windows for BC++ provides an integrated programming environment for Borland C++ Compiler 5.5（abbreviated as BC++5.5) running on Windows.
Link for English version
http://phys.cool.ne.jp/physeng/bccwin.htm
regard
Macgile