Re: [Dev-C++] Giving up

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

Hello Danny846842,

I have (or think of having) small knowledge of ANSI C89 and develop only 
console applications: I find both MinGW gcc 2.95 and Borland BC++ 5.5 fully 
ANSI compliant.

I'm learning ANSI C++ and find BC++ 5.5 close enough to the the standard.

I know nothing about Windows programming but, IMHO, Windows applications do 
not use standard instructions (I'm saying it because I once saw that 
Windows applications have "WinMain" where ANSI expects "main").

I agree that Dev-C++ is not perfect, especially I do not like the "always 
compile everything" approach, so I use MinGW gcc (or BC++ 5.5) from the 
command line (or from within the editor "ConTEXT"); I think that if you 
develop console applications, you too can use the command line giving C/C++ 
a second chance.

At 12:05 25/01/02 -0500, Danny846842 wrote:
>I give up on DEV-C++ I understand that it's a front end IDE for the gnu 
>compiler that comes in two compilers cygwin, and mingw.
>
>My reason for giving up is whatever compiler I use it won't accept ANSI 
>standard code and gives me false linker messages.
>
>One good thing I found out is that Bloodshed Software also distributes a 
>Pascal IDE called DEV-PAS which is much more user friendly. Also the 
>Pascal language is much easier to learn (I learned it before I did C) 
>using common English phrases as opposed to C/C++.
>
>After reviewing DEV-PAS I found it is a much better IDE for creating 
>Applications, both Windows and DOS console ones.
>
>I will still subscribe to this group in the hope of problems being posted 
>and their possible solutions so I can learn more about 32 bit programming 
>using C/C++.
>
>I want to thank everyone who has responded to my mail, and want to 
>apologize to those who I gave help and examples that didn't work when I 
>tried them personally.
>
>Good Luck and happy programming,
>Danny

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Luigi
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